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Loyalists
'Urged To
Aid France

Will Also Determine
Future Of Spain’

; PARTS, France (ICN. —
4 “Whatever may happen, Span-
‘ish republicans, loyal to the

» constitutional regime, who are
| in France must in the case of
| war consider the struggle as
) their own, not for political
'reasons but for national con-
siderations. The future of
France will also determine the
future of Spain,” Juan Negrin,

|Spain, declared in an interview
'with the Argentine paper, La
Nacion.

“That is why we must join with
; the French whose serene disci-
)Ppline at the moment evokes ad-
miration and respect. As for us,
measures have been taken in or
)der that our desires can become an
immmediate reality.

“I believe that the Franco re-
= gsime will be neutral. In the inter-

' incline to stay faithful to the Nazi
| axis, they will be forced to simu-
late an apparent neutrality,” he

“But Spain’s interest demands
that this neutrality not only be ef
fective but also benevolent as far
(as France and Britain are con-
- cerned.
; “The decisive moments for the
[suture of Spain demard a united
frent of all Spaniards. In order
' that this may happen an internal
"process. of pacification is mneces-
'sary which can only be obtained
/through an amnesty which will
“put an end to the reprisals and
)persecution and allow those of its
"sons who are in exile and whe so
"desire to returm to their father-—
land.
. “We bope that those who hoid
the destiny of Spain in their hands
* will understand this. So far as we
are concerned we shall do nothing
(which will aggravate the fires of
_ discord.”

EMIGRES OFFER ATD.

The Federation of Spanish em-
igrants have sent a letter to the
Minister of the Interior, Mf. Al-
bert Sarraut in which they em-
Phasize that “if France is oblig-
€d te bring help to friendly pa-
tions te which it is bound by al-
liance, cur emigrants will be
ready also to take arms in hand
tegether with the sons of France
to defend the democratic and re-
publican land of many genera-
tions.”

,5 The Federation of German emi-
‘grants in France has also pro-
* claimed its fidelity and that of its
| members to their country of asyl-
wm and their willingness to de
fend it when the moment arrives.

Moot BWI

‘Federation

© PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad
| Proposal for creation of a selfgov-
| erning federal dominion of the Bri-
tish West Indies will be placed be-
fore the British government in the
report of Lord Moyne’s commis-
}sion, which recently visited the
| West Indies, it is stated here.

» Constituent states of the propos-
ed federation, to be based on the
-Australian model, would be: Trini-
dad and Tobago; Jamaica, with
Caicos and Furks Islands; Wind-
ward fIslands; Leeward Islands;
and the Bahamas. Possibility that
| British Guiana and British Hon-
'duras on the mainland might be
asked to enter such a federation is
mooted.

4

__ Suggestion that the British West
Indies be constituted a separate
“dominion has been advanced sever-
al times in the past 40 years, but
“always shelved by the British gov-
etament.

| dim the years preceding the lasi
“World war the idea that the West
indies should join the Canadian
Confederation was broached. Im-
Mediately after the war the pro-
posal was revived and a league
formed to promote it.

' in recent years demand for a
form of democratie selfgovern-
menthas been repeatedly raised by
the people of the West Indies. Lord
‘“Moayme's commission was appointed
te investicate following’ demonstra-
tions and outbreaks last year which
ted to. exposure of conditions which
‘Shocked the British public.

Bruce To Speak .

Malcolm Eruce, popular Com-

| munist speaker, will address a

Bublic meeting to be held this Sun-
day, Sept. 24, at 3 p.m. in Tecum-
S€h hall, 43rd and Victoria road.

former premier of Republican |

lished in recent years.

SHANGHAT, China. — Semi-official Chinese sources here
reflect mo concern at the truce agreed on by Tokio and Mos-
cow on the Mongol frontier, stating that this has no dangers
to China, that friendly relations with the Soviets, which alone
among all the powers has furnished China war supplies, re-
mained unimpaired, while United States and British interests
have callously armed their worst enemy; Japan.

CHUNGKING, China.—Slogans and posters left by re-
treating Japanese troops in Sinti, a town in the southern part
of the Hopeth province, indicate to what extent the J apanese
militarists are hated by their men.

The posters read: “More than 800,000 soldiers and officers
have been killed and wounded at the fronts in China.
Japanese government is doing nothing to render assistance to
the 2,800,000 unemployed. We should all revolt against the
militarists and demand that we be sent home, where we shall
finally settle accounts with them.”

The

According to The Hour, usually
reliable confidential news letter,
the Wazis are preparing for any
eventualities of the war by setting
up a Mexican machine for the
conduct of the Third Reich's prop-
aganda and espionage program ia
this hemisphere. ‘
Through sources consistently re—
liable te date, The Hour reports
the following facts:
—The Deutsches Haus in Hermo-
Sillo, Sonora, has been selected

fer supervision of work in the

Worth. The work includes getting
in armaments, bought with Nazi
funds, for the purpose of aidin=

the fascist leader Almazan to fight
egainst Cardenas. One of the chief
reasons for choesins the state of
Sonoro for this work is its fov-
ermor, whose Wazi and Almazan-
ist Sympathies are openly declar-
ed.
—General Almazan,
hand-in-siove with Paul Dic
triech and other Nazi chiefs in
Mexico, is conductin his anti-Car-
denas campaign from Monterey,
Nueva Leon. He has established
a series of channels across the
American border which end wuilti-
mately in San Francisco with Cap-
tain Fritz Wiedemann, Nazi con-
sul-general. One of the key trans-
border bases is bein= set up in San
Antonio, Texas.
—Wiedemann is actively working
with Mexican fascist exiles to
cement all ties to Almazan. A net
work of spy activity is being built
around these exiles living in the
United States.
—WNazi ships, ancnoring in Mexi-
can ports, are playing an im-
portant role. The statfs of the
boats have been enlisted in the
spy and propaganda work. Al-

working

Nazi Headquarters
Shifted To Mexico

NEW YORK, NY. — Caught in the lurch by President Roose-
velt’s acceleration of precautionary measures to protect the |
security and peace of the United States. the German Nazi gov-

ernment has abruptly moved its headquarters in the western |
hemisphere to Mexico, where full support will be given the
candidacy of the fascist general, Juan Andreu Almazan.

ready there are seme fifteen boats
hovering off Mexican waters,
amone them: five at
four at Vera Cruz (including the

ner Columbus), three at Acapul-
co. More are expected.
—Aimazan is receiving money

from the Third Reich in hand-

some sums.
him te swing into action as soon
as possible.

—The. Nazi

their operations are directed as

much toward the Wnited States as
toward the southern countries.

The Hour
several days before announce-
ment by Pederal Bureau of Inves-
tigation that PBI agents had dis—
covered that a cache of arma-
ments valued at five to seven
million dollars was hidden in the
San Francisco Bay area. Though
the exact location of the contra-
band arms has not been found; it
Was regarded as significant that
discovery of their existence oc-
curred shortly after the Nazis:
headed for another headquarters.

The San Francisco area, where
Consul Fritz Wiedemann is report-
ed to be in charge of operations,
would be the logical point for ship-
ment of arms to Mexican waters.
Last June a $70,000 cache of arms
was smugled out of San Francisco
and discovered in Los Angeles. Im-
plicated in the illegal traffic was
ene Richard L. Dineley-

in 1936 Dineley was involved in
the Seizure of five carloads of
arms at Laredo, Texas. He said
the shipment was routed to San
Luis Potosi, consigned to Gover-
nor Saturnino Cedillo, who later
ied a fascist revolt against the
Cardenas government.

intensify the strugele
fascism and for peace. “The de
struction of fascism,’ the mani-
festo points out, “is one of the con-
ditions for the peoples of capital-
ist Europe to have a new future
of freedom, peace and social pro-
gress open before them.”

The Italian people will be spur-
red on to overthrow fascism by
the non-aggression pact Hitler has
been forced to seek from the
USSR, since it has exposed the
bankruptey of the anti-comintern
pact and of axis solidarity, the
manifesto declares.

Greeting the pact, the statement
of: the Italian Communists says:
“Events of the past few years have
proved to everyone, and particu-
larly to the Italian people, that
Guly the Soviet Union pursues 4
eonsistent policy of peace and re-
sistance to assression.

Tt recsllis the Soviet Union's per-
sistent attempts to prevent Ttalian
fascism’s invasion of Ethiopia, its
aid to the Spanish Republic. “Had
the other non-fascist countries of
Burope taken the same position—
and all the obligations they had
contracted before pledged them to

this — the Spanish people would

Urge ftalians To Fight
For Defeat Of Fascism

PARIS, France (ICN) —‘If war breaks out . . . we shall fight
without hesitation to make the outcome the military and political
defeat—the collapse of the fascist regime,” declares a manifesto

of the Italian Communist party, which call on all Italians to
against}

mot have been crushed, fascist It-
aly and Germany would have been
forced to beat a retreat and today
we should not be in such a tragic
pesition,” it states, concluding:

“The working class and the Ttal-
ian people have much to learn
from the way the peace policy of
the Soviet Union is developing.
With one more proef of the in—
consistency and falsity of anti-
Communist demarosy, with its
Gemonstration of the weakness of
the fascist Axis, the Italian work-—
ing class and people will Iearn to
have more confidence in their own
strength.

“They wall learn that the salya-
tion of the Italian people cannot
come from these groups of the in-
ternational bourgeoise whose main
preoccupation is not to save peace
but to save fascism, they will learn
that independent action of the
proletariat is indispensable for the
creation of effective resistance to
the aggressors and war makers.
Im our country this lesson will
Delp te accentuate the workers’
Class struggle and the struggle of
the whole people against fascism’s

CHIANG KAI-SHEK is saluted by a guard while-on a
morning walk in Chungking.

Tampico, |.

Berlin is encouraging |!

Mexican Chiefs say |,

report was released |

War policy and for peace.”

Police, Peasants
Clash Im Austria;
Strikes Increase

PARIS, France. — (ICN).
— Serious collisiins have oc-
eurred between Reich of-
- ficials and Austrian peasants
in a number of districts in
_Lower Austria, reports Oest-
-erreichische Informationen.
Recently there have been
‘lightning strikes in many
factories as demonstration
of resistance to exploitation,
excessively longs hours and
wage deductions. Working
to rule is also a form of pas-
Sive resistance. At Krem-
enetzky Works, large elec-
tricity plant in Forisdorf, this
form of struggle has become
So Sharp that on repeated oc-
|casions Black Guards have
been ordered to the factory
to stand with drawn bayon-
‘ets over the men and see
“that they work to time.

Changes
Opposed

Any changes in present legisla-
tien desismed to reduce the num-
ber of men employed in theatrs
projection rooms and thus in-
erease fire hazards will be stren-
uously opposed by Motion Picture
Projectionists’ union, F. Guy Gra-

ham, union business agent, told
the Advocate this week.

Graham stated that independ-
ent theatre owners in the city

were still attempting to obtain a
reduction in projection room staff,
despite past defeats by the union.
Me discounted the Plea advanced

by these theatres that they were
Dot makings money.

Most of the theatres, he said,
were in suburban districts and in-
“eluded Olympia, Fraser, Music
Box, Stanley and Rico.

“At the present time,’ Graham

Said, “when more women and chil-

dren are attending the theatres,
there is a greater need for two
men in each projection room to

control fire hazards.”

He stated that Famous Players,
operating a chain of theatres in
the province, had recently renew-
ed eontracts with the union for
another two years. The contracts
called for two men to each booth
but admitted a 5 percent wage re-
duction, he said, pointing out that
the union gained 2 10 percent
Wage increase following the strike
some time ago which won employ—
ment for two men in each booth.

Court Dismisses

“Appeal of Labor

VICTORIA, B.C—Appeal from a
decision handed down last fall re-
straining Motion Picture Projec-
tionists’ union and officers of Van-
couver Trades and Labor Council
from picketing Hollywood Theatre
and awarding the movie house
$2000 damages was dismissed Tues-
day by BG Court of Appeal.
~ Chief Justice Archer Martin dis-—
sented in part with the decision
when he decided that the trial
judge had ro power to make a rep-
resentative order against the de-
fendants and they were entitled
“to publish information to warn
and to urge” but not to arrange or
advocate mass protests against a
labor grievance.

'IWA Seeks

Wage Boost

Increased wages commensurate
with imereased costs of living as a
result of the war situation is the
aim of a drive launched this week
by local 71, International Wood-
workers of America, according to
AJ Parkin, union organizer.

To assist in this campaign the
union organization boat Laura
Wayne will leave Vancouver this
veek equipped with typewriter and
mimeosraph for lower and upper
Vancouver Island points where as-
sociation camps are located.

i is planned to print leaflets for
wide distribution in these camps
urging a revision of wages to meet
increased living costs

Negotiate
On Milk

Negotiations with milk produc-
ers ta permit the sale of milk at
cheaper rates were authorized on
Monday %y social services commit
tee:

if able to obtain necessary con-
cessions from producers, the eity,
would be able to sell milk at seven
cents a quart in the city market
to relief recipients and approved:

low income families.

it is proposed to operate the
depot for a four months’ experi-
mental period, opening daily for
two hours from 7 to 9 a.m. If suc-
cessful, Alderman Corey stated,

more depots will be opened in

other parts of the city.

Postpone Meet
TORONTO, Ont.—(fECN).—Due to
the war Situation, the Jobs and
Reeovery Gonference, called for
Sept .22-23 in Toronto, has been
postponed until Oct. 27-28.

erman Workers Conduct Fight Against 'Nazi Regime

Soviet Aid To China Not Affected By Truce
Between USSR, Japan In Far East, Reports State

LONDON, Eng. — It was reported here this week that the
Soviet Union will continue its policy of materially aiding the
Chinese people against the.invading Japanese armies, while
concluding a true with-Japan providing cessation of border
fighting on the frontier of the Mongolian People’s Republic.

These reports stated that Soviet-Chinese trade relations,
including the shipment of munitions to the Chinese govern-
ment, would remain approximately similar to those estab-

Intensify
Action In
Factories

Workers Uniting
Im Struggles For
Wage Increases

PARIS, France — (ICN). —
The Nazi war machine is built
upon the quicksand of a dis-
satisfied and hostile working
class which has been conduct
ing an inereasingly determined
fight for higher wages on the
eve of the present war, reports
from a Berlin correspondent

| veaching here by undersround

sources indicate.

Many former Nazi workers are
Standing by their fellows in the
many partial movements for hizh-
er wages, in wage negotiations
and opposition to wage cuts.

In a Berlin metal plant there
was Sharp discontent amone Nazi
workers when production was
speeded up 20 percent without any
wage increase. Anti-fascist work
ers in the plant gave them friend-—
ly counsel to file complaint with
the “confidential representative”
supposed to represent the workers’
interests. Lhe Nazi workers inter
viewed him, when he refused to
Srant the demandwud increase, they
went over his head and forced the

departmental director to give
them higher pay.

Women in the hand grenade
factory won higher piece-worl:

rates when they threatened to stay
home unless their demands were
met. The factory manazsement re-—
fused the demands. Twenty-eight
women failed to report for work
the next day and, because women
are needed to make up the short-
age in male labor, the factory was
forced to raise its piece-worl
rates.

Throughout the industrial areas
of the Third Reich there are many
movements for higher wages.
Sometimes low piece-worlk rates,
Sometimes low hourly rates or in-
creased deductions are the cause.
Discussions bring Social-Demo-
cratic, Communist, Nazi and noun-
Barty workers closer.

The Berlin correspondent re-
ports: =

“TI have seen issues of Der An-
sriff and Der Voellkischer Beo-
bachter in which speeches by Nazi

buroecrats on “just wages” have
been annotated with marginal
notes for “factory use.’ These is-

Sues go from hand to hand and
are often an important factor in
preparing sentiment for wage in-
crease demands.”’

Commentine on the splendid
courage of the anti-fascists, he
Says that the concentrated hatred
ef the workers for the Nazi re-
gime is now coming te open ex
pression.

“On a factory wall in Spandau,”
he reports, “I saw painted the Slo-
Sans: “Butter instead of cannons!’
‘Down with Hitler, Hitler means
war!’ The words had been covered
with kalsomine, but the first rain
had washed off the whitewash and
left the paint clear again.”

Most of the workers have heard
over the anti-Nazi radio of the
wage raises won by the workers
on the Westwall and in the Ham-
burg shipyards.

Phe class strugele is sharpenin=
and there is no doubt in the ranks
of the workers that, factory ac-
tions will be decisive in the future

in the overthrow of itler.

Philippine Workers -
Seek Right To Strike

MANILA, Fhilippine Islands (By Clipper Mail) (ICN). —
Philippine labor is seeking recognition of the workers’ rights to
strike as an unencroachable right under the Constitution. This
is contained in a 7-point resolution passed by the two new na=
tional labor groups, the National €Commission of Labor, indus-

trial workers’ federation, and thes

National Commission of Peasants,
and submitted to the national as-
sembly, now in special session to
consider amendments to the Philip-
pine Constitution.

Both labor groups supported re-
election of President Manuel IL.
Quezon and revival of the bi-cam-
eral Philippine legislature. On
the question of the constitutional
amendment governing presidential
reelection, they are backing the
proposal to shorten the present
six-year term (without reelection)
to a four-year term, with one re—
election.

Other constitutional amend-
ments proposed by Philippine la-
bor are:

i—Recognition as a constitu-
tional right of the right to work,
Suaranteed to every able-bodied
eitizen.

2—Recognition and guarantee
Gf the right of citizens to free ele—
mentary education.

3..—Recosenition of the right of
laborers to strike as an wunen-
croachable right under the consti-
tution.

4—Abrogation of the education-
al qualification for voters.

3.—Stipulation in the Gonstitu-
tion that all elective officials be
subject to recall.

Communist leaders have simi-
larly proposed constitutional
amendments to establish trial by
jury, to guarantee the right of cit
zens to bear arms, and to make
judges and government prosecut-
ing attorneys elective.

On the suggested revival of the
Senate, upper house of the Philip-
pine legislature, the national labor
Broups proposed that proportional
representation feature the setup
of the senate, whose members yill
be elected nationally and not by
districts,

Prop or tional
would fuarantee the opposition
party a minimum yepresentation
in both the lower and upper
houses, even if it suffered com-
Plete defeat at the polls.

Prospects of adoption of pro-
portional representation are, hovw-
ever, problematical, as legislative
leaders are opposing it, declarin=
it contrary to democratic prin-
ciples to give the opposition rep-
resentation even if it does not win
& single seat in the elections.

representation