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Unions Endorse Advocate Drive

French
People

United

War Not Against
German People But
To Crush Nazism

PARIS, France—(Delayed by
Censor)—The Communist party
parliamentary group (deputies
and senators), meeting under the
chairmanship of Senator Marcel
Cachin, has sent an expression
of closest solidarity to all French-
men mobilized to defend the na-
tHien’s security.

The first week of general mob—
ilization saw a considerable ad-
dition to the number of working
class leaders called to the colors.

By SAM RUSSELL.
Passed by the Censor)

PARIS, France.—The grow-
ing unity of the French people
is becoming increasingly obvi-
ous as Hrance ends the second
week of the war with Ger-
many.

In Paris, evacuated with magnif-
icent discipline by women and chil-
dren, the calm and grim determin-
ation of the population is what
strikes one most.

Wtihout a2 murmur of demon-
strations, the French people are
proceeding to the task of organiz-
ing the entire resources of the coun—
try toe resist Nazi aggression. The
might of Erance is now in the
field against aggression.

Many have seen a comparison
with the last war. True, France
is determined to stop Hitler. But
it does not mean that France is
against the German people.

The anti-German demonstrations
which characterized the declaration
of hostilities in i914 are entirely
lacking. France is fighting against
Hitler to free Poland, to free the
world from the menace of war, to
free the German people from the
WNazi yoke.

MANY IB VOLUNTEERS.

The French minister of educa-
tion, Jean Zay, today presented
himself for full military service and
was quickly accepted.

Maurice Thorez, general secre
tary of the French Communist
party, presented himself at 2
mobilization centre this morning
in accordance with the mobiliza-
tion order.

In the streets fathers with medals
and ribbons from the last war on
their breasts were marching along
with young sons who have just
reached military age to join up.

Alongside the Frenchmen, the
foreigners resident in France are
also showing their determination

fo defend France, their “second
homeland.”
International Brigade volun-

teers now in the Gurs camp in
seuthern France have reaffirmed
their desire to fight in the ranks
of the French Army for the lib—
eration of Poland.

Through the organization of the
French International Brigade val-
unteers, the German, Polish, Czech,
Ttalian and Austrian members oft
the former volunteer units in Loy-
alist Spain now in Gurs said, “We
only ask one advantage—to be in
the first ranks.”

TRADE UNIONS ASSIST.

In a statement published in Le
Populaire, two other anti-fascist
volunteers, Gustav Richter and
Julius Deutsch, declared on behalf
of the Austrian Socialists:

‘wre Austrian Socialists have al-
ways fought Hitler. And we de-
clare that we will continue to fight
against the barbarism which is lay-
ing waste to the world—to fight
against Hitler.”

With millions of members leaving
their homes and factories to join
their regiments, France’s trade
unions are being called upon to
make a great effort. They are not

9LOYAL ARMY QUELLS UPRISING

By CARLOS CONTREROS
LABARCGA.
(Member Chilean Chamber of
Deputies).

SANTIAGO, Chile — (ICN) —
Loyaity of the armed forces and
carbaniros, and prompt mobiliz-
ation of the Chilean* people for
defense of the republic, were re-
sponsible for the quick crushing
of the recent fascist putsch led
by Generals Ibanez and Herrera
against the people’s front govern-
ment.

More arrests have been made.
Among those jailed is Oswald
Gastro, a leading representative
of British trade interests in Chile.
Castro for a time was treasurer
ef the committee campaigning
for election of the reactionary
Gustavo Ross to the presidency.

The people, standing solid in
defense of the people’s front gov-
ernment, have held mass rallies
and demonstrations to place be—
fore the government their de
mand that it use the present in-
vestigations to clean the state
apparatus of fascist and subver-
Sive elements of the “Fifth Col-
umn” and to impose severe pun-
ishment upon the rebels. mo Ne

A special call has been made to
the villages and rural localities
to be on their guard, since reac-
tion is now concentrating its ef-
forts among the peasantry in pre-

paration for another attack upon
the people’s front government.

Maneuvre of reactionaries now
is to seek ouster of the present
cabinet and its replacement by
one solely representing the Rad-
jcal party. With this in mind
they have issued the slogan, “Ail
power to the Radical party,” but
the objective of dismembering
the people’s front and achieving
the capitulation of the govern-
ment can easily be perceived be—
hind this trick.

La Hora, Radical newspaper,
has editorially called attention to
the danger of isolated activity on
the part of some people’s front
parties which Can Cause serious
harm to unity.

President Pedro Aguirre Cerda
in a recent speech repeated his
pledge to fulfill the people’s front
program which was endorsed by
t hepeople in the October 25 elec-
tion.

And in addition reports of for-
mation of a new cabinet by Rad-
icals and Liberals have just been
denied by the minister of inter-
jor, as well as reports that the
Radicals are seeking the ouster
of Socialist leader Grove.

The Communist party of Chile
bas not only denouncedsthe fasc-
ist plot but also advanced the
slogan of “All power to the peo-
ple’s front government”

Fascist Attempts To Split People’s Front
Blocked By Solidarity Of Chilean People

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ride through Santiago streets
cist uprising.

SUPEORTERS of the people’s front government of Chile

after quelling the recent fas-

Pay Cut
Restored

Civic employees gained a partial
victory in their long battle for re-
storation of pay cuts when Mayor
J. Lyle Telford cast the deciding
vote in favor of a 21%%6 percent re—
storation to become effective on
Dec. i, 1939.

Alderman John Bennett was ve-
hement in his opposition to the re-
storation, declaring that tax reduc-
tion should come first.

Pointing to the present uncer-
tain situation caused by the war,
Alderman Bennett said he felt that
consideration of the proposed re-
storation should be postponed un-
til the beginning of next year.
Retorting that salaries should
now be raised to meet the mounting
costs of living caused by the war
situation, Ald. Helena Gutteridge
remarked that for years restora-
tion of the civic employees’ pay
cuts had been evaded by the coun-
ceil.

“J think they have paid their fair
share of the depression costs to
Vancouver,” she declared.
Supporting the motion were Al-
dermen Corey, DeGraves, Gutter-
idge, Wilson. Voting against were
Aldermen Bennett, Cornett, Kirk
and Miller. As chairman of the
council, Mayor Telford cast his
vote deciding the issue in favor
of the employees.

Continued

Se e
Britain
ment: “This may not be industrial

conscription, but it is a very thick
chunk of the wedge.”

“The most important factor in
_securing the speediest possible
defeat of the Nazi aggressors will
be the sustained unity of the
working class and the people of
this country,” Gallacher said.

“The one thing that may in-
jure that unity is the slightest
suspicion that Nazism itself is
_being introduced.”

Gallacher voiced agreement with
the statement of Laborite David
Kirkwood who told the Commons
that “the workers in the shops to-

failing in this task.

A delegation from the Paris met
al, chemical and building trades
unions has already placed before
the minister of labor proposals to
insure organization of national pro-
duction and enlistment ef labor-

These unions, im 2 statement,
declared, “Im the face of the war
danger threatening the country’s
security, we consider that all
must be done toe assure the na-
tional production.

PROPOSE THREE SHIETS.

They suggested submission by the
union of lists of persons ready for
employment and the establishment
of a three-shift system to enable
factories to work 24 hours straight
through the day and night.

Were in Paris this correspondent
has seen already a great nation
puckling on its armor against the
enemy of world peace—Hitler fasc-
ism.

T have seen am entire pation an-
swer the call without a single mur-
mur, a uation confident in its will
to triumph and win by magnificent
and complete unity of the nation.

day, just as in the last war, have
a suspicion that under the cloak
of patriotism the employers may
take advantage of them to lower
their standard of life.”

Gallacher, indeed, had personal
experience of this in the last war-

Asking what was the need for
this “dangerous expedient,” Kirk-
wood said: “Someone says we Tre-
quire organization, but we have or-
ganization. The trade union organ-
ization is quite capable of relating
to the needs of the particular in-
dustries.”

Appeasement Plane
Destroyed By Fire

LONDON, Eng-—As half Burope
blazed with war last week the
Manchester Guardian revealed that
the British air liner recently de-
stroyed by fire while flying be
tween London and 4urich was the
plane which in Sept., 1938, carried
Prime Minister Neville Chamber-
Jain to the conference at Munich
which led to dismemberment of
Czechoslovakia.

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profiteers and speculators.
They remember how men

country so that it weighed half

world war, people watehed prices
rise. “So the old game has begun
again,’ they said. “These sharks
who profit from the suffering of
their fellow men, are getting in
on the ground floor of another po-
tential fortune at the people’s ex-
pense.”

“Who's, getting the profit?” they
asked. “The wholesalers,” agreed
most.

Most significant of all is the in-
stance of butter. Iwo weeks ago
there was a surplus. Free butter
was given to relief recipients who
couldn’t cope with such large quan-
tities at one time and consequent-
ly were not any better off.

In two short weeks the price of
butter has risen six cents a pound.
People on relief now get no free
butter, neither can they ever af
ford to buy any.

Canada is synonymous with
wheat. Thousands depend on its
production for their livelihood. For
years farmers on the prairies have
endured untold hardships because
“there was no market”

In two short weeks, flour has
gone up more than $1 on 98 lbs.
Instead of the usual price of $2.53,
a 98-lb. sack of flour last week
cost $3.75 and to obtain such a
quantity, the normal requirement
of many large families, was almost
impossible.

British Columbia fishermen, re-
sponsible for another of Canada’s
food products, canned salmon, were
faced this week with a situation
where they could not obtain their
usual supplies of sugar to leave for
the fishing grounds.

In the middle ot the canning
season, when vegetables and fruit
are most plentiful, housewives can-
not get enough sugar for ordinary
use, let alone canning.

“T'l] boycott the store,” declared
one woman, indignantly, as she
was allowed to take only one pound
of sugar for a large family.

But, in the words of another,
“You can’t raise a family without
any flour, butter or sugar.”

In reply to queries there has been
the usual buck-passing.

“Housewives are getting panicky
and buying extra supplies,” declar-
ed the wholesalers. Did they for-
get that thrifty housewives always
need more sugar for canning?

Retail stores say they cannot get

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Charge Racketeering
In Food Prices Here

By KAY GREGORY
hardships endured in the last war, of the huge fortunes made by

at the front had to eat rotten

bloated meat, pumped up with salt water before leaving this

as much again.

They had experience of ration cards to buy a little butter or
margerine and still less sugar at terrific prices.
Qn the first day of the second’

more supplies from the wholesalers.
But some of them, taking advan-
tage of the situation, have indulged
in petty racketeering.

“Sorry, we Haven’t any sugar,”
said one, “but we can let you have
two pounds with another pur-
chase.”

Nowadays, however, women are
wiser. They have learned the value
of organization with militant action
to cope wth such problems. Many
organizations have declared their
intention to fight this inhuman
practice to the bitter end.

The Housewives’ League has ap-
plied to the city council for assist
ance and has a special committee
working on the problem.

Under the signature of Mrs.
Ethel Dawson, acting-secretary of
Vancouver Mothers’ Council, this
week issued a statement to the
press protesting vehemently against
the rise in price of butter, sugar
and flour, for which, the council

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stated, there was “absolutely no
excuse.”

Mrs. Dawson appealed to inter-
ested women to join them in com-
batting profiteering by attending
meetings of the council held every
Tuesday at 2 p-m. in O’Brien Hall.

By means of such meetings, by
united action, this inhuman prac-
tice can be stopped. We, the people,
who pay the price, must demand
that we, through our sgovern-
ment, call the tume anc stop the
amassing of huge fortunes at the
expense of soldiers and civilians.

Ask Opening Up
Of Highway

PRINCETON, BC.—Fearful of
being cut off from communication
with Vancouver by sabotage of
only lines of travel through the
Fiastern Ganyon, residents of Sim-
jlkameen and the Okanagan val-

leys will press for opening of the
road through Allison Pass to Hope.

Cc. H. Tupper, MLA, who made
a trip through the pass last week
with two government engineers, is
expected to report favorably on
the project when the House meets.

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Loyalty
Pledged

Wazi saboteurs failed in their at—

tempt to discourage anti-fascist
German-Canadians from attending
a city rally last Sunday when near-
ly 1,000 persons crowded into the
Moose Hall to reaffirm their loyal—
ty to Canada and demonstrate their
determination to aid in the fight to
erush Hitlerism.
Threats had been made by Nazis
that German-Canadians would be
put in concentration camps by the
police if they came to the meeting,
George Suter, secretary-treasurer
of the German-Canadian People’s
Society, told the audience

Pointing out in his address that
Hitler had never represented the
German people, Suter stated that
there was an anti-Hitler movement
in Germany of considerable extent,
whose very existence proved that
Germans were suffering under the
present regime.

In a resolution passed unani-
mously and forwarded to Prime
Minister MacKenzie King, the
meeting pledged its devotion to the
Canadian government and whole-
hearted cooperation with authori-
ties to safeguard the national inter-
ests in the present war crisis.

“Further, we are prepared to act
in preservation of our Canadian
democratic rights and ideals,” the
resolution concluded.

“It is your fight as well as ours,”
said Dr. Black, president, Vancou-

ver League of Nations Society, in
his address_

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City Committees
Guarantee $2800
As Campaign Starts

First shot in the big offensive
launched this week by the Ad-
vocate drive committee to raise
$4,000 to maintain and enlarge
this publication was fired Sat-
urday when an anonymous
contributor walked into our
office and donated $10.

While the big drive officially
opened today (Friday), Peggy For-
kin, drive manager, has already
received pledges from - Vancouver
Eress committees amounting to
$2800 while a trade union group
has voluntarily pledged to raise
$600.

Ww. Gateman, business agent of
Hotel and Restaurant Employees’
Union, says:

“Tt was with much satisfaction
I learned that the Advocate will be
enlarged from a 6page to an &
page paper, particularly so at this
time when workers and middle
class people throughout the world
are confronted with great and tre
mendous problems. ; ne

“With a world war in Europe
and the struggle for a unified labor
movement in Canada, such a paper
as the Advocate becomes increas-
ingly necessary. Wholeheartedly FE
support and endorse the Advocate,
knowing through its columns the
truth will be found on all ques-
tions.”

“The number of enquiries regard-
ing the Advocate coming to this
office and to the fishing camps
where Pacific Coast Fishermen’s
Union members operate is an indi-
eation of the necessity for news re-
porting of the type contained in
this paper,” states A. V. Hill, union
secretary. :

Im rendering this service we
feel that the Advocate is ex-
tremely useful to trade union
workers of this country. We
would regret if, for any reason,
financial or otherwise, this source
of information should be cut
off.”

Several letters along similar lines
have been received by the drive
committee from trade unionists
but shortage of space prevents their
publication.

With this kind of support there
is every indication the drive will
go down as the most successful in
the paper’s give years of publica-
tion.

Individuals and committees are
advised to address all drive monies
to Peggy Forkin, Room 14—163
West Hastings Street, Vancouver.

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