= * + =i - cate phaeetarr paresis aoe meeded nor would accept Soviet military aid. Question of the said, since it was purely a commercial matter. x : . MOSCOW, USSR. — The British and French governments, by their rejection of the _the assistance of France, Britain and Poland against an aggressor only by receiving pas tary negotiations with the Soviet Union, Marshal Klementi Voroshilov declared this wee > Bes Voroshilov, people’s commissar of defense who headed the Soviet military delegation, b | in the London Daily Herald that the Soviet delegation had demanded occupaticn o ‘ “MV Siachdov Shows How Soviet Proposals For Aid Blocked Soviet Union’s standpoint that the Red army could come to sage through Poland, were responsible for breaking off mili- i ae k. The Polish government, he stated, had said that it neither Soviet Union supplying raw and war materials to Poland was not taken up, Voroshilov randed as ‘‘a lie from beginning to end”’’ a report appearing f certain Polish districts on outbreak of war. (Continued on page 3) © + Must Have _ Confidence In Power he AL 7 VOCATE FORMERLY THE PEOPLE’S ADVOCATE FOR PEACE, PROGRESS AND DEMOCRACY Success Will Follow United Strensth Of FULL No. 242. VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1939 5 Cent —= Labor, Says Draper TORONTO, Ont. — Labor must have confidence in its just cause and united power, and success must follow, President P. M. Draper of the Trades and | Labor Congress of Canada told unionists in his annual Labor Day message. “In the last few years the parlia- ment of Canada and the legislatures ef Seven provinces have adopted, in one form or another, the draft bill Siving legal protection to organiza- : : ce OF MUNICHMEN ) BY MOLOTOV tions,’ Draper pointed out, continu- : nb eX =o : = “That is something tenable the Bs = x workers have secured for them- MA | hA [_ M : selves to strengthen their posi- I itary eats ISSIONS eave Ooscow y tion, a right established of which ies fee ie all industrial workers should take ee full advantage.” 5S Hull text of President Draper’s message reads: = Qne does not have to be of a pes— Simistic turn of mind to admit that Labor Day, 1939, finds the wage earning population of Canada faced With very much the same problems as we have had to face for a decade, Following 1929 we constantly had the hope that the heavy volume of unemployment would be only tem- porary — that, as always happened before, the situation would correct itself, and that jobs would again become pientiful. Most unfortun- ately, we have been disappointed in that hope, even though there has been substantial improvement in employment across Canada since the “few point-of the-depression-in 1933-5 SSS {Continued on Peaze 6) See DRAPER Unity ClO Keynote TORONTO, Ont.—Appeal to members of the international trade union movement “to stand guard in unbreakable unity against the vested interests, which in their mad scramble ermnments their mission could have been successful. HERE the British and French military mission to the Soviet Union is seen in Moscow. Joseph Edouard Doumenc, head of the French delegation is at left, with Sir Reginald Plunkett- Ernle-Erle-Drax at extreme left. But for the duplicity of the Chamberlain and Daladier gov- General for war profits seek to take ad- vantage of the nation’s emerg- ency to destroy the democratic ' rights of labor,” was made this ' week by Silby Barrett, speak- ing for CIO unions in ‘Canada. “The Ganadian people,” he said, “ore marching forward in greater unity for a New Deal program of urgently-needed social reforms which will provide jobs, security, ¢ and extend democracy into every | phase of our economic and political life. "=The CIO membership in Cana- da” Barrett continued, “hes help- €d to defend the international trade union movement and the Canadian people against the attacks of an “alliance of powerful financial in- terests behind the pro-fascist Hep- burn-Duplessis axis. “We share with our fellow Can- adians their mounting wrath against the betrayal of the demo- cratic people of Austria, Spain and Gzechoslovakia by the vested in- terests ef Great Britain and France, whose policy of appeasing Hitler, in order to safeguard their jnternational financial investments in the fascist states, has brought the world to the verge of another Great War. “We appeal to the members of movement to stand guard im un- breakable unity against the vest- €d interests which in their mad scramble for war profits, seek to take advantage of the nation’s Court Dismisses | Labor Test Case Weakness of City Prosecutor Evans Lawson lost for Interna- tional Woodworkers of America its first test of the new labor law—section 502A of the Criminal Code—when Magistrate Mac- kenzie Mathieson dismissed intimidation charges against British Columbia Plywoods Ltd. in Vancouver police court Wednesday. @® Magistrate Matheson dismissed Island Unity) se S22. emee” Meet Held Lawson was never at any time sure of himself and questioned his witnesses in a half hearted man- ner, which failed to establish a CUMBERLAND, BG. — initiated| Ptima facie case. D. N. Hossie, by the UMW=A and attended by dele-| Counsel for the company, knowing gates from trade unions and pro- gressive organizations, 2 unity con- ference was held Sunday to discuss endorsation of a candidate in the the calibre of Lawson, took every advantage by continuously raiisnge Federal election who will be pledged to fight for a people’s program, who objections. was not tied to any old-line party Peter Brodie, principal in the case, told court how Charles Read- head, member of employees’ co- operative committee, a company set-up, had, in company with Fore man George Bowell, sone through the plant on August 3 and urged workers to sign a petition uphold- ing the committee or the plant would be closed down. Don Cameron, employed by the macnine. Present were delegates Upper Island loggers and fishermen, UMWA and its women’s auxiliary, ¥Firebosses’ Unien, CGF and Cum- derland Section of the Communist from CCF Nominates Against Kootenay Labor Candidate CRANBROOK, BC.—Des- pite the fact that he has not been a CCF member long enough to be eligible, Rev. J. H. Matthews was officially nominated at a convention last Friday as the CCF can- didate in the Mast Kootenay constituency for the next federal election. Held expressly at the de- mand of the constituency’s one functioning club, in Kim- berley, the convention ig- nored the labor candidate al- ready in the field, Fergus McKean, and steered clear of all unity talk during its meeting. Harold Winch, CCF MLA for Vancouver East, went specially to Kimberley to at- tend the nominating conyven- tion. emergency te destroy the demo— cratic rights of labor to organize and bargain collectively. We pledge ourselves unsparingly in the struggle of the Canadian people for social security, demo- eracy and peace. We stand ready to help organize the thousands party. Discussion brought from CCF delegates to the proposed plan for endorsing a candidate not fied to a party machine. Severe eriticism was levelled ‘by other dele- company for the past three years, substantiated Brodie’s evidence, reiterated Bowell’s remarks that it would not be a case of 50 men being fired but the plant would be objections of unorganized workers who aoe gates at splitting tactics of the CCF Sigs aet and 300 men would lose oe eco i leadership in the labor movement. their jobs. nee : : ee eee ‘5 : 3 Deleeates SBeizte progr Sore oy, officials disclaimed e extend our hand in frater- J having issued the petition in committee with power to invite all progressive organizations to future conferences. A draft program was drawn up and will be sent out to every group for discussion and ap- proval, : Wo definite date for future con- ferences has been set. ' Mal unity this Labor Day to our sisters and brothers in the Ameri- Can Federation of Labor, in the hope that it may be the foundation _-for a greater and more lasting | unity at the 55th Conyention of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada.” : question and stated through Coun- sel D. N. Hossie it had been cir- culated by the committee. Other witnesses were called, but not having been present when the alleged intimidation tcok place | were excused. Nova Scotia Miners Strike GLACE BAY, NS. — Industrial warfare broke out into the open, when 9,000 miners protesting against inhuman speed-up and months of dallying with the new contract, by the Dominion Coal com- pany, struck this week in the Cape Breton coalfields. Seven of the company’s ten pits were idle and there were prospects of the strike spreading. Britain Wanted Loopholes Left In Proposed Pact USSR Premier Tells Supreme Soviet Alliance Desired By Britain Would Have Enabled |Britain and France To “Wriggle Out’ MOSCOW, USSR.—Befecre the Supreme Soviet when it met here Thursday to ratify the Soviet- German mon-agzeression pact Premier Vyacheslatf Niolotov revealed why talks between Soviet, British and French military delegations failed. The tri- power military alliance, as proposed by the Britisiz and French delegations, weuld, he said, have com- mitted the Seviet Union te action against an ag- gressor while enabling Britain and France “‘ts wrigsle out’’ of their abligations. Poland, stated the Soviet premier, refused to allow Red army troops to cross the Russian-Polish border, although this was the only way the Soviet Union could effectively aid Britain and France and Poland. In this stand the Poles were supported by the British and French, despite the fact that only in this way was military cooperation possible. Voroshiloy pointed out that the British and French military missions were given no mandate by their government and were composed of low-ranking officials. Reviewing the negotiations, he pointed out that they had been dragged out over a period of four months, not throush any failure on the part of the Soviet government, but because of the dilatory attitude of the British and French governments. Say Nazi Fleet Blockading Port Of Gdynia BERLIN, Germany.—By formal declaration of the Reichstag teday (F riday) Danzig was annexed to the Third Reich according to late reports. PARIS, France-—Nazi warships were reported to be block-— ading the Folish port of Gdynia this (Friday) morning, as Hitler desperate at the stubborn opposition of the Polish people to his demands, moved to increase the war tension to breaking- point. LONDON, England.—Designed as a propagandistic attempt to throw the onus of aggression on Poland, Hitler today (Fri- day) issued a manifesto to the German army claiming that since the Poles would no longer respect the German border, Nazi Ger- many was prepared to meet “force with force’. (Continued on Page 8) — See TORIES EDITORIAL with this issue the People’s Advocate goes down into the : labor history it has recorded, interpreted and helped to write. In its place the new Advocate appears as the tried cham- Pion of the people’s cause, as a weapon of the labor movement proven in many a struggle. The Advocate will carry forward the finest traditions of the Canadian people, the traditions of William Lyon Mackenzie’s fighting Colonial Advocate, in the light of modern needs. To the thousands of new readers who will now receive the Advocate instead of the Clarion Weekly we say: Welcome! Join us in the struggle to publish the permanent 8-page Advocate. On September 15 our fall press drive will start. We want $4,000 to ensure publication for the next six months. With that amount we can guarantee publication of an enlarged 8-page paper. The Advocate is your paper. You built it. You need it, in these critical days more than ever before. Let’s send the drive over the top! Let’s win hundreds of new readers for peace, progress and democracy!