Page Six THE ADVOCATE Committees Urged > To Speed Up Drive Continued India and controversies, and to keep in readiness and hold together 4S a united nation determined to achieve the freedom of India with- in the larger freedom of the world.” Britain Refuses Indian Demands LONDON, Eng.—(Passed by the British Censor) While Indian jeaders declared that the British fovernment denied democracy to India while expecting India to fight in the mame of democracy, the British government, through 2 statement made by the Marquess ef Zetland, secretary of state for Imdia, in the House of Lords, has rejected the Indian Wational Con- gress’ demand for Indian free- dom. Lord Zetland said of the Indian people that “while preserving 2 united front to the forces ranged against us, they should strive after that agreement among themselves without which they will surely fail to achieve that unity which is an essential of the nationhood of which those with vision among wher leaders have long dreamed.” The Marquess told Indian lead- ers that “if at the end of the war there is a desire for a change in the plan of government, then Bri- tain will consult with them on such directions as may then seem desirable.” Gongress demands that the Bri- tish government state its war aims and particularly those aims apply- ing to India were evaded. Tord Snell told the House of Lords that the government could not expect to get the support of the Labor party “by ignoring In- dia’s claims or meeting them witn a mere negative response.” Indian Leaders Score Statement BOMBAY, india — Mahatma Gandhi, commenting this week on the British government's attituds toward India’s demands, as ex- pressed by the Marquess of Zet- jland reaffirmed in a white paper issued by the Marquess of Linlitzc- gow, viceroy of India, said it was “profoundly disappointing.” “The declaration,’ he stated, “shows clearly that there will be no democracy for India if Bri- tain can prevent it,” and “that the old policy to divide and rule is to continue.” Gandhi asserted thats as far as he could see, “Congress will be no party to it, nor can the India of Congress’ conception be a partner with Britain in her war with Hit- ler.” The premier of Madras voiced an opinion similar to that express— ed by Gandhi. “Tt is a deeply disappointing statement,” he said, adding: “A preat, unique opportunity has been thrown away. Instead of new courage and new imagination be- fitting a great crisis that Britain and the world is passing through, we have flung at us the language and the attitude that is all too fa- miliar, and which, in this erisis, is jmappropriate and unfortunate.” Jawaharlal Nehru, leader of the Indian Wational Congress, mad= this retort: “They have spurned the hand we stretched out,” he said. “They have made it clear that they fight to preserve and entrench the empire and imperialism. it this is the war aim, India can be mo party to keep herself and others in bondage. ‘We do not believe the British people accept this imperialist aim, nor can the free British do- Iminions side with imperialism. The British Labor party does not support the government in order to make the world safe for dem- ecracy, America has not extend- ed her sympathy for this. “Yet this is the answer we got. To this, India can only say an tula also writes in: “The press committee is mak- -ing a pledge of $25 towards the press drive. We will either eall with it or mail it to you this week.” That’s quick work! Victoria this week sent alorg $23.20 with the statement: “Everyone is now workins hard to carry out our plans. We are going to put on one socia- event each week until the end of the drive and have every confi- dence Victoria will fulfil its quota.”’ Over by the Alberta border, the coal town of Fernie writes: “Wish to advise that all steps to make the Advocate drive 2 success have been completed ana up to date are very encouraging. A house party has been arranged for the near future. We haye set ourselves a quota of $20, al- though we will not stop at that for we intend to double it.” The Okanagan committee at Kelowna, carrying out iis promis cf last week, made the outstanding gain in this district by mailing in $12.75. Mission City in the Fraser Valley is holding a whist and dance for the press at Ferndale on Nov. 3. In Greater Vancouver, Hastings East committee had a bang-up af- fair the other night, clearing $15 to keep it at the head of the list in this district. However, North Van- couver expects to go over its quota after the Hallowe’en Dance at the EP Hall on October 31, so Hast ings East will have to keep on its toes if it wants to stay at the top OV Bill is well over his $100 this week and is out for another $100. Thanks, Bill. With four weeks tc ge and $2,500 still to raise every booster and press committee must dig ip ana make those extra efforts whicn will put the drive over the top. Wow more than ever before do we need our paper. Weve never let the Advocate down yet, boost- ers, 50 what do you say? Shall we fo right after that $4,005? We car do it! Donate to the Drive—— Continued Pioneer Miners are legal tenants up to Nov. 15 and unfil then company officials are acting beyond their legal rights in removing blankets or in shutting off heat and water from the bunkhouses,” Stanton told the Advocate. Stanton is awaifing word cf his senior counsel whether legal action will be started against Labor Minister G. S. Pearson, for infractions of his own law — the Industrial Conciliation Arbi- tration Act — which Stanton claims was violated when no conciliation commissioner was appointed in the specified three days to mediate the Pioneer dis- pute. Miners waited more than a week before taking strike action, a move within their legal right, Stanton said. Angus Mactnnis, MP, will ac- company Stanton to Bralorne to Gefend six union execut-ve mein- ters each charged separutely witn unlawfully striking or going on strike unlawfully 1n disputes aris- ing prior to applhcaticr being made for a conciliation corm mis- sioner. Gases were remanded Tuesday op application of John Stanton. and wii] be heard G J. Sumner Gefense counsel, before Magistrate next Wednesday. emphatic ‘No!’” Qn the strike front committees Dependable Quality -- - 5-STAR The Must Raise $2500 For Sustaining Fund In Next Four Weeks By PEGGY FORKHIN All press drive committees were working steadily this week, albeit a little slowly. Away up in northern BC the mining town of Atlin has come into the news with its first contribution. The fishing community of Soia->, Committee Standings ——— Following is the standing of all press drive committees at Wednes- day, Oct. 25. If the $4000 mark is 70 be reached within the time liniit set, the drive will have to be step- ped up, Drive Manager Pegsy For- lin warned this week. All commit tees are urged to check on their standing and send in immediately ell money on hand. GREATER VANCOUVER— Amt. Pct. Hastings East ...-.. $ 69.50 69 South Vancouver ... 79.00 58 West End ..... ----- 195.55 56 North Vancouver —.. 18.87 33 ount Pleasant .... 70.35 35 Industrial .....--- . 189.15 es Kitsilano ....-.-.--- 26.50 BL Worth Burnaby ..---- 18.75 20 East End -.....----- 95.75 19 Grandview : 18.85 I2 OV Bill -....---:--= 116.55 116 Professional ...-.-- 21.00 —_ Miscellaneous _..- 106.00 —_— OKANAGAN— Enderby -.---------- 43.00 107 Kelowna .. =. es 1895 52 Salmon Arm .. ..--— 14.70 49 Vernon ....-.------- 23.66 47 Kamloops ..--.------ 4.60 — VANCOUVER ISLAND— Cumberland . ._—-.— 107.47 143 Victoria ..-—------- 38-35 32 Wanaimo .-..------- 15.20 20 FRASER VALLEY— Haney .---------+--- 32.51 94 South Burnaby ..-- 19.75 75 New Westminster - 24.65 62 Langley ---------- 26.20 52 Mission ---------- _ 10.60 35 Surrey ------ ---:- 43.25 35 Wiatsqgui...------- 2.00 rf Whiscellaneous ..--- 2.25 — KROOTENAY— Trail ...-.--2++---2- 11.60 49 Quesnel ..---- ae 138.00 36 Rossiand a St506 13.76 29 Grand Forks . ----- 8.00 — Wyundel = 5.60 — NORTHERN BC— Atlin: 9 ==. a= 312.00 30 Sointula .---------- 2.00 3 Grassy Plains =e 1.00 6 Prince EHupert 3.00 5 Powell River -.----- 13.30 — Total ..-..------ $1431.60 35 —___ Put the Drive Over are functioning smoothly to pro- vide strike relief for the miners, whose morale remains at a high level. They are confident they will win their strike. Miners at Graiorne, lower down the Bridge River valley, “this week suppcrtec strikers with donations and plecges that amounted to $1700. while Salmon Purse Seiners union here is send- ing 200 ibs- of fisk. committee returned for strikers. A hunting a full quota of game A pregnant woman, wife of a striking Pioneer miner, was re fused prenatal treatment by doc- tors at the hospital. The union is taking steps to meet such emerg- encies and prevent company ef- forts to drive the miners back to work or out of Pioneer. Wotices have been posted advis-— ing miners to vacate company houses by November 30 and to make life more miserable for its employees the company has closed the pool room, library and recrea- 25 OZ. 13 4.25 2-50 40 3.50 This advertisement is not published or di tion hall. at a Low Price roughbred RYE WHISKY splayed by the Liquor Gontrol Board or by the Government of BC. Continued Britai that the threat to democracy fro without must be resisted. A few hours after union leaders left Whitehall, Labor party lead- ers agreed in the House of Com- mons to a second reading of the Lill postponing municipal elections until after the war. So the peoples’ voice is stifled, even while union action is smothered. All as part of the war for democracy. Hand in hand with economic ¢ mands, goes an increasing demand for peace by influential Labor pat- ty organizations. The Ayrshire Federation of La- bor parties, representing 50,000 members, passed a resolution de manding a world peace conference and the definition of the govern ment’s war aims. This follows 2 resolution of the North Scotlane District Council of National Raii- waymen, which reads: “This meeting of the delegates, believing the government is waging an imperialist war, de- mands the immediate cessation of hostilities. We give full sup- port to the Soviet Union in its policy of endeavoring to unite all countries in a peace bloc. We call upon all branches te work for the immediate defeat of the gov- ernment and to elect a govern- ment which will cooperate to the fullest with the Soviet Union in efforts for peace.” Britain’s railway workers may have to operate their trains under 4 war-time blackout, but they ate piercing the blackout of truth be- hind which the Chamberlain Gov- ernment and its Laborite hench- men are pushing the second impec- ialist war. This is shown in the Railway Review, weekly organ of the Na- tional Union of Railwaymen, one of the most powerful trade unions in all Britain. Wumerous articles, editorials aad letters critical of the war definite- iy outweight the voices of the pr2- war cliques. it was from the North Scot tish Railwaymen’s district coun- cil that one of the most vibrant appeals for an end to the war came last week and giving “fu'l support to the Soviet Union in its policy of endeavoring to unite all countries in a peace bloc.” One article in the Railway Re- view brands the present imperi2}- ist war as “a direct consequence of certain ciauses of the Versailles Treaty’ and declares: “Tt is mot astonishing that some of the present protestations of Al- lied statesmen about Allied hon- esty ring a little holiow in German ears when such clauses are re- membered.” An editorial in the Railway Re- view, deftly contradicting the oifi- €ial jingoism of the ‘government press, asks: “After all, can German Nazism be destroyed by anybody but the German people them selves?” The editorial continues: “Al- ready in this country there is 2 movement afoot demanding 2 new Europe from which nation- alist and imperialist wars shall have been banished because their causes have been eliminate:i- “Victory, it cannot too often be repeated, is not an end. It is only a means — a means towards ends cherished by the victorious nations, er, more accurately, by the group or groups of interests in control of the state power within the wic torious countries. “The victory of 1918, so far as this country 1s concerned, was the prelude to a parliament crowded with’ hard-faced men who looket as though they bad done very weil out of the war’; and to a peace im keeping with the eharacter of that parliament: in keepsng, aiso, witi the whole reality for which the war was fought. ‘“ How, indeed, could an immense elash of rival imperialisms en? otherwise than in huge annex- ations; the redrawing of frontiers slong lines dictated by the antic. pation of future conflicts—a cyni- cal commentary, indeed, on the peacemakers’ war-time propagan- aa of a war to end war; fantastic indemmnities; and a deliberate sab- ctage of the international deve- lopments that seemed to hold cut a promise of a lasting peace: in 3 word a peace of spoilation and subjection. ‘Tt is against such a calamitous and dangerous outcome to te present war that the thought and will of the workers should be d. rected. “Allies, happily, will not be wanting; but the main burden of establishing a peaceful world must inevitably fall upon the workers. “This will prove no easy task. It will be useless to shut our eyes and open our mouths in the hope that the ripe fruit of a sane acd humane world will without effort on our part fall to our lot and that of our children.” : = MEN... _.- DRESS UP THIS FALL IN A Suit or Overcoat @ BETTER STYLES @ BETTER TAILORING @ BETTER MATERIALS $2.1.50 ., A Word to the Wise... PRICES ARE GOING UP — ORDER NOW! Our low rental location enables us to sell for less and give greater values ... Buy from the old established firm known for quality ! 324 West Hastings St. SEy. 5614 \ : ik In The House By HAL GRIFFIN before an outraged electorate ernment? its way the session will be a short one, just long enonugh to secure passage of what is considered es- sential legislation. If the needs of the people are to be given any con- sideration the session will not be short, for Dow, as never before, the people’s needs demand the ur- gent attention of any government to which democracy represents more than a convenient catch- word. What action will the government take to curb profiteering? Will the government that sired the Special Powers Act, now that it has the pretext of a war ‘emergency to justify its using special powers, safeguard the tra- ditional democratic rights of the British Columbia people, rights in- herited from the struggle of the British people, rights the British people themselves are now struggling to maintain? These are questions the man on the street is asking and in the answering of which he intends to have a voice. Goming before the House are questions of vital concern to the labor and progressive movement. Some of them the government will be only too anxious to pass over quickly, urging, no doubt, that un- Pleasantness ill becomes the oppo- sition in such times as these. Wot that the opposition will come from the official opposition, for Pat Maitland has already found that the differences which two months age separated him from Premier Pattullo no longer exist. Whether all members of the Liberal party feel the same way about things remains to be seen. LABOR ACT UNDER FIRE. The government will come up against the tremendous force of public opinion when the question arises of amending the Labor Con- ciliation and Arbitration Act, which, despite minor amendments, remains a potent weapon for use against the organized labor move- ment in reactionary hands. That the government is prepared to use this act at the behest of a few mining magnates—all in the name of ‘emergency,’ of course—to de- prive workers of hard-won rights and particularly the right to or- fanize for higher wages there seems little doubt at the moment. The Doukhobor question ‘is no less difficult for the fovernment Public opinion will not allow the Sun Life Imsurance company to exact its pourd of flesh from the Doukhobors with government ap- proval and evict 5,000 pioneers from their lands. On the other hand, the Sun Life is demanding its pound of flesh and voters will have to be alert that the pound of flesh is not obtained at public cost. The government intends to ask for authority to proceed with its preliminary work in establishing a provincial oil industry. This can only meet with general approval. If the enterprise is carried to its announced conclusion British Co- lumbia will be the first province or state in North America to en- gage in the oil industry. But, with the sad experience of similar pro- vincial projects before us and in If the Pattullo government has gthe IN= week the British Columbia legislature will convene for its most historic session in a quarter of since 1915, when Dick McBride rollered its decisions through the cratic ‘opposition’ of two, have British Columbia’s legislators met to determine their course in wartime. erously interspersed with scandals by no means forgotten, record the decisions of Sir Richard McBride and his sovernment, a century. Not s Conservative majority steam- House over the Social-Demo- History's pages, gen- ousted it from office in 1916. What will history record of Duff Pattullo and his Liberal gov-— knowledge that greedy hands already being extended to seize the province’s reputed oil wealth for private interests, the public will need more than ordinary vig- ilance to keep its government in this particular straight and nar” row path. Im all of these imstances the g§ov- ernment faces the necessity of making a decision between the in terests of the people and the inter ests of big business. EYES ON CCE. Eyes will be on the CCH which this week mapped a three-point program for the session. Briefly, these points call for: 1) Protection — of the rights of organized labor; — 2) Opposition to any encroach ments upon civil liberties which may be threatened by goveri- mental authority in wartime; 3) Extension of existing social sere ices, now more than ever Teces- sary. This program will find a ready response among the people. point not so clear is the response it will meet on fovernment benches. Tt is mot amiss here to recall that historic session of 24 years agone, when Parker Wil liams, member for Newcastle, and John Place, member for Na= naimo, representing the Sociat Democratic opposition toe the £O¥- ernment of that ardent imperialist Sir Richard McBride, were con- fronted with the task of present ing the working class viewpoint of imperialist war to a hostile house Parker Williams’ utterances on that occasion are in the records. ‘While Socialism is opposed t war,’ he said, “I believe that the shortest road to peace will be over the broken carcass of German mil itarism.” John Place, while d& mouncing the Tsarist sovernment | and stating his belief that Britain has used Belgium as a pretext for entering the war, took a similar stand. Two years later liams was appointed men’s Compensation Liberal government, has held ever since. John Place’s name was in ti news the other day as a suggestet government arbitrator in tt Privateer dispute. The capitalist class has maz means of dealing with these wit oppose it. Some it buys outright Some it corrupts indirectly. Som! it leaves to perpetuate its domme | tion of labor organizations by vit! j ous machine control. Some 2°) more useful to it posing with mask of the past upon them. : These are times when every PF4' gressive faces the test of new 2 difficult situations, times when #! sues and alignments must be Tey examined in the light of change conditions. The former alignme into democratic and fascist camp loses its meaning of yesterday. T® day the democratic camp and thos who can be included in it is dete” mined primarily by attitucl” are Parker Wil to the Work Board by thé @ position bf myer itd towards the war. ra In all the spate of words sey to be loosed upon us we shall 6p well to remember this. : ff Mi NOON € : The ~ ere ne tient INT are TROT, n Fehr ae ec —— CY a SOT be meniscal: = ere Bite ket Sr RR NESS A oer WY 1