ee What Can You Do To Help Our $4,000 Fall Press The ADVOCATE Help To Double Our Circulation: Win a New Drive? FORMERLY THE PEOPLE’S ADVOCATE Reader 3 | FOR PEACE, PROGRESS AND DEMOCRACY FULL No. 245. VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1939 = 5 Cents NAZI BLOCKED On The Eastern Front DESIGNS ON UKRAINE BY SOVIET UNION ON THE EASTERN FRONT—Cable photo shows the wreckage of an apartment house in Warsaw after Nazi planes had loosed their hail of death on the Polish capital, where the people Thursday still were fighting desperately against Hitler’s encircling armies. ON THE WESTERN FRONT—Aerial view of Saarbrucken, where French forces reported their greatest gains thus far. Saarbrucken is one of the Saar basin cities on the frontier between the Rhine and Moselle, and an important industries center. FOOD PRICES STILL SOARING Fiousewives By KAY GREGORY. Baced with badly-strained fa- mily budgets, especially by failure of price control authori- Canadian people are demanding immediate measures to halt the alarming rise in food prices. Among the protest meetings now being called by various or-— Hanizations throughout the prov— ince is that to be held next Thursday in Moose hall under the auspices of the Housewives’ League of British Columbia, at which Mayor J. Lyle Telford and other prominent citizens will speak. On request of Mayor Telford, Civic social services committee last Monday appointed a special three-man committee “to exam- ine and guard our consumers’ rights against unjust price in- creases.” When the federal government Call Protest set up its Wartime Price and Trade Board, people felt that something would pe done to pre- vent profiteering such as accur- red in the last war. That was two weeks ago. Prices are stiil rising- Butter, of which there is a surplus, is now 30 cents a pound, in some places 35 cents. Meat prices have risen beyond the reach of Many fpeople. Flour, eggs, canned milk cost more as the days go by. It is peculiar,’ remarked Ald- erman H. LL. Corey in the social services committee “that the price of butter should go up when only a few months ago there was a surplus of tons of butter!” Warnings sent out by the Wartime Price Board revealed that speculators and others had bought butter by the carload. Rally Yelling them to liquidate their holdings immediately the board announced that prices “will now resume normal behaviour.’ Butter is still 30 cents a pound. According to reports, the su- far crisis, blamed on the house wife who couldn’t afford to hoard sugar if she wanted to, has “eased off.” Approximately 2,000,000 pounds of sugar were turned back to sugar refineries in one day from industrial firms who “bought their sugar Supplies several months ago.” Wevertheless, officers of the Dominion weights and measures service have been instructed to find out from retailers to what extent householders have pur- chased sugar, to make sure that (Continued on Page 2) See PROTEST 1A Unpaid Seamen Quit Ship Greek Freighter Tied Up In Port; Captain Blamed Stranded penniless in Van- eouver although they have wages for seven months due them, 15 members of the Greek freighter Helena Stathatos ad- amantly refuse to sail again with that ship because of the captain’s threats to log all members of the crew for every cent of wages. James Thompson and Pat Dris-— coll, Inlana Boatmen’s Union of- ficials, cabied the Greek marine ministry when they, in company with John Stanton, failed to effect redress of the crew’s grievances. Greek ‘officials cabled instruc- tions that the crew be taken to Lisbon, nearest neutral port 10 Greece, and paid off, but the cap- tain’s threats to log all men has nullified that offer. Ganadian immigration officials have- declined to intervene until the captain reports them as de- serters, but this he apparently hesi- tates to do, hoping the men will be driven back to the vessel through economic pressure. A 15 percent war bonus was Te- jected simpiy because the crew has not received regular wages. Regulations demanding sick members be put ashore for treat- members be put ashore for treat— den by the captain, who refused to place two sick members ashore at Yokohama. Two engineers declared their in- tentions Thursday of joining the erew, which includes the second mate. All prefer to go back to Greece in irons rather than sail with the vessel. The men have been provided for by the Inland Boatmen's Union. Will Fight For Rights MONTREAL, Que—iIn a state- ment of policy issued here the Ca- nadian Civ3l Liberties Union, Mont— real branch, declares its intention to continue and intensify its fight to protect the democratic rights of the Canadian people. Holding that prosecution of such a war can only be effective if in- ternal democracy is maintained |and extended, the statement de- clared: - “The union realizes toat in times of war there is a tendency to put into force legislation which may eurtail or even abolish many of our civil liberties, and the union is eesolvead to continue its opposition to any curtailment or infringement of basic civil rights unless un- questionably dictated by military necessity. The union will combat with every means at its disposal any and every attempt to take ad- vantage cf times of war to restrict unnecessarily freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly and association. All war measures will be scrutinized by the union in this light.” Sees Reactionary Attack In 1940 OMAHA jNeb—Labor will face the Sharpest attack in its history in 1940, CIO Director John Bro- phy told several hundred delegates to the state convention of the Towa-Nebraska Industrial Union council when it met here recently- “The tories are engaged in a de— liberate campaign to destroy the social advances made under the Wew Deal,” he said, “but we will not yield to reaction.” Victoria Labor Hits Profiteers CCF To Call Conference On Civil Rights VICTORIA, BC. — At its meeting here Wednesday night Victoria District Trades and Labor Council went ‘unanimously on record as favoring full conscription of wealth, industry, raw ma- terials and goods before con- scription of manpower. The council registered a vigorous protest against soaring living costs, denounc- ing price increases as un-= necessary. Plans were adopted at - Wednesday night’s special meeting of the CCF, attend- ed by delegates from Van- couver, New Westminster and lower mainland district councils to call a civil lib- erties conference for promo- tion of a Democratic Rights Movement. Left in the hands of the provincial executive are Plans for a mass meeting within the next few days to (Continued on Page 2) See CCE Red Army Greeted By Cheering People After Occupation NEW YORK, NY. Dispatches from Bucharest, Rumania, to the New York Times here reveal that, far from having any secret agreement with the Soviet Union for partitioning of Poland, as charged generally by the commercial press, Nazi Germany hoped to make Lavow the capital of a Nazi-dominated Ukraine state which could be used as a stepping-stone to the Soviet @ Nazi leaders have made this ob- jective a center; of their intrigue for some years, encouraged by the Munichmen who hoped to direct Wazi aggression eastward. Always they haye recoiled before the strength of the Red Army Now the Red Army, by its swift occupa-— tion of the Western Ukraine and Write Russia has destroyed the basis of their hopes. The Bucharest dispatches stated: “It was believed that, despite his non-ageression pact with Russia, Hitlersstill had in the back of his mind the original German “march to the east,” the objective of which was the Black Sea, with its Medi-— terranean outlet. This would en- compass Russia’s fertile Ulraine, with an area as large as Poland. “Lwow is the sea of the Ulzraini- an nationalist movement which has been under way since the middle of the eighteenth century. its peo- ple have a common language, cul- fure and racial affinity with Rus- Sian Ukrainians. They were OL posed to the Polish sovernment be- fore the German invasion, but pledged their support to Poland during the conflict. They are re Sarded now as no more pro-Polish than pro-German, but firmly de- termined to have their own nation, which they never have had except for a beleaguered republic between 1917, when Czarist Russia collapsed, and 1921, when they were divided between Poland and Russia. “The view was that by. ereating a controlled Wkrainian state with a segment of Poland, Hitler could, at some future day, use it as 4 wedge against Russia.” MOSCOW, USSR —The Red army. of the Soviet Union this week flunge its powerful protecting columns far across the fields and around the cities of the Western Ulraine. Crossing the Polish — Russian border at 1 am. last Sunday, within three days the Red army had occu— (Continued on Page 2) See UKRAIN, in several official communi this week. Wynndel scored a direct hit and is mentioned in dispatches as the first committee to contribute to our objective, while on the Okan- agan front Salmon Arm gained i3 percent of its $30 objective in a sudden attack. Enderby, it is re- ported, will go into action immedi- ately for $40. sion has an objective of $30, and lines of Communication are being established between general drive headquarters and other fronts. “We are going to do our darndest to put the drive over the top,” writes Cumberland. “The objective is 375 but we believe we can sur- pass this. All other committees had better get on their toes because we will sprint past them so fast they will wonder what whizzed by them.” Along the Vancouver salient, committees are swinging into ac tion for an attack to achieve the in the Fraser Valley sector, Mis--: From the Kootenay firings lines; | First Gains Made In Press Drive Offensive Mobilization of press committees throughout BC behind the Advocate’s big offensive launched last weel for a $4000 main- tenance fund to enlarge the Paper to eight pages. c i 1 ce fur , coupled intensification of the drive for increas ee Z eS ed circulation, was pledged ques reaching drive headquarters $2800 week. From iL. H. C. Phillips, president of Worth Island Trollers Cooper- ative Association, comes word en- dorsing aims of the general of- fensive. “In my opinion the Advocate is the only BC newspaper that con- sistently publishes in correct per- spective current local and world news and information,” he writes. “Without this medium it would be difficult for the average work ing man of this Province to prop- erly interpret the value and ind- portance of news that usually reaches him garbled and distorted to suit the interests of the daily press. “As a constant reader of the Ad- vocate, IT look with Suspicion on the claims of those people who con- Sider themselves well informed without its assistance.” objective mentioned last