a oeGrl an perms fa SNE E ET vi Wovember 3, 1939 3 THE ADVOCATE Page Fi City of Flint Inc US Made No Protest On Other Ships Held By ADAM LAPIN WASHINGTON, DC.—Facts surrounding the US state de- partment’s attitude on the City of Flint incident point to the case having been ‘built up’ in order to influence American opinion in the war, it is charged by progressives here. entering thes ——— Important factor Situation is the desire of reaction- aries in the administration to seize on the episode in order to promote the anti-Soviet campaign now be- ing developed in the United States. Truth is that the City of Flint is but the most recent of 21 Amer- ican ships ‘detained’ for varying periods since outbreak of war. This was revealed in a list made public by the state department this week. Of these ships, 12 have been held by Britain, 6 by France and 3 by Germany. But while no protest has | been registered by the US in these cases, the City of Flint has been Kept in American and Canadian headlines for more than a week. It became known this week that the state department released its list of ships detained by belliger- ents only after tremendous pres- Sure from a number of prominent newspapermen, i is understood further that the list was finally made public only after the threat had been made that Senator Bennett C. Clark of Missouri would demand its release on the Senate floor. ADVOCATE CLASSIFIED These merchants and professional men offer you their services at competitive prices. “By advertising in these columns they support your paper. By patronizing them you ensure continuance of their support. Make it a point to deal with Advocate advertisers wherever possible. ADVERTISING RATES Classified, 3 lines 45c. Moonthliy con tract rates on application. BOATS ROWBOATS OF ALL KENDS, $30 and up. National Boat Works, 110 Dunlevy Ave, Vancouver. 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DONG, TATLORS, formerly Horseshoe Tailors now at 8 West Cordova St. TRinity 6024. ident Magnified Peace Campaizen Launched By Democrats, WCF SEATTILE, Wash. — Cit- ing as the need for immedi- ate action the Gallup poll showing that 46 percent of the people in the US believe the nation will go to war, the Democratic central commit- tee of King County and the Washington Commonwealth Federation this week launched an every-house- hold peace canvass. Workers in all parts of the county are being mobilized to circulate the petitions which call upon the govern- ment to take immediate steps to keep the US out of War; and to put a stop to the rising cost of living by curb- ing war profiteering, specu- lation and monopoly: and to levy rigorous surtaxes upon excess profits and high in- comes. 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SS = PHOTGCGRAPHERS £ Wand Studio sis7755 WELDING DRUM FURNACES: Sawdust or Wood $25.00 up DRUM HEATERS All kinds of Welding and Labor Aids Farmers SAN FRANCICO, Gal. — Offi- cials of the Maritime Pederation of the Pacific this week cited co- operation of the Pederation’s Washington state affiliate in help- ing market the Washington apple crop as an example of how work ers and farmers can work to- gether. Representatives of all farm eroups in the state of Washing ton have thanked the Maritime Federation for joining the Team- sters’ union and other organized labor groups in trying to save the State’s apple crop, they said. Washington State Council of the Federation joined labor’s campaign in Washington, where the apple surplus not only threatened ruin to farmers but the truck, railroad and marine transportation indus- try as well. International Fishermen and Aj- lied Workers of America, also al- lied to the Maritime Federation, received wide publicity recently when they distributed Washington apples inscribed Labor Supports the Farmer, at the CIO national convention here. Washington State Grange sent thanks to maritime organizations in the Northwest, while United Farmers of Washinston wrote that it “greatly appreciated the fine hu- Manitarian principle embodied in the campaign.” Program Adopted By OCF ‘Miake Democracy Work,’ Slogan Of Oregon Federation PORTLAND, Ore—Oregon Commonwealth Federation through Executive Secretary Monroe Sweetland, this week announced adoption of a pro- gram looking toward keeping America out of the European war. Endorsing President Roosevelt's pledge to keep us out of war, the Federation adopted a resolution Stating: “We believe that only as we make our American democracy work to meet the economic issues which now harass our people and only as we maintain and extend our Civil liberties suaranteed by the Bill of Rights, can the United States avoid the failures which have brought the collapse of Bur- opean democracies. “Modification of the Neutrality Act by itself will not suffice to keep us out of war.’ Therefore, resolved the OCF board of directors, it is necessary “that every effort be made to en- act laws insuring domestic tran- quility and internal stability in our mation to the end that we may keep out of this tragic and suicidal conflict. Im this direction we urge that the following steps toward economic reconstruction be under- taken: “1.—An extensive federal slum- elearance and public housing pro- gram with provisions for rural housing. ° “2.—Restoration and expansion of the Public Works and Works Progress Administrations. “3.—Pmactment of the federal lending program proposed but re— jected in the last Congress. “4.—Eixtension of old-age secur- ity benefits; adoption of the Wag- ner Health Bill. “5.—Renomination of re-election of President Roosevelt. “6—Drastie legislation to jpre- vent profiteering and to preclude a general ‘war boom’ in the Unit-— ed States. “7.—Protection to the small far- Imer through a federal legislative program along the general lines of that advanced by the National Farmers Union, with Jegislation based on the family-sized farm.” In conclusion, the OCF declared: “That we believe war will inev- itably bring to our nation, now the last great outpost of democracy, the very dictatorship which we de- test. Only as we couple a deter-— mination to make our democracy work by solving our great internal economic problems with unequi- vocal notice to the world that we will not be part of this war, can we ‘assure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.” ‘BILL OF RIGHTS NOT MEIN KAMPF’ Stove Repairs City Welding 1527 Main Street WCE Leader Issues Challenge To Dies SEATTLE, Wash.—In a blistering telegram dispatched to Congressman Martin Dies here yesterday, Howard Costigan, executive secretary of Washington Commonwealth Federation, challenged him to reveal the real motives of his attack on civil rights, and called for investigation of Dies’ procedure, citing refusal of the committee to consider evidence of fascist activity by Senator Burke of Nebraska. “As a vice-president of the Am-© erican League for Peace and De- mocracy, I challense you to reveal the motives behind your unwar- ranted attack on leading New Deal officials whose sincere desire to protect democracy and peace led them to join with persons of all political beliefs in an organization dedicated to that laudable end,” Costigan’s telegram said. “I am not a Communist, but if Communists are the most active forces in leading American peace organizations it is 2larming only in the senses that there should be more members of the Demo- eratic and Republican parties rep- resented. “Tt is to the credit of the 563 government officials whom you pilloried that they did not allow the fact that even Communists fa- vor peace or the publicity lash of your committee to turn them into warmongers. “Your effort te block New Deal reforms and smear with 2 red brush those who will not be cowed by your ‘sordid, un-Am- erican methods, has at last over- reached itself and exposed your true aims — the destruction not of the Reds, but of proeressive government in 1940. “Your hatred of the New Deal is most evident in your failure to even consider documentary evi- Gence published by the Washins— ton New-Dealer, revealing the an- ti-New Deal Senator, Edward R. Burke of Nebraska, was a member of the pro-fascist Khaki Shirts at a time when its leaders admit plan- ming an armed march on Washings-— ton, DC, to set up a military dic- tatorship. “As an American of pro-reyolu- tionary stock; as a member of the Democratic party, proud of his as- Sociation with New Dealers in the American League for Peace and Democracy, I suggest that you stop confusing your Bill of Rights with Hitler’s Mein Kampf, and immed- jately launch an investigation of your investigators.” Denunciation Of Dies Lauded SEATTLE, Wash. — Warm ap proval of President Roosevelt's de— nuneciation of the recent action of the Dies Committee was expressed by Washington District Council of the Maritime Federation last Fri- day. Secretary A. E. Hardins for- warded a letter of congratulations to both President Roosevelt and Congressman John M. Goffee for Strikins back at the un-American actions of Martin Dies. SHORT JABS by OF Bill > CPR are working out according to CPR tradition in We are still in the Press Drive and we are in it seriously. I am pleased to be able to say that donations have come in well to this column from all over the province. I opened a small envelope not much bigger than a postage stamp the other day. Im it was a five-spot from two good friends away in the wilderness of northern BG. On the same day i had another five-spot handed to me from a very good friend in town and a few days before that another fiver from an old-time buddy in New Westminster. But they don’t all come in fives. Several two- dollar bills have come from the Yukon. An old-timer we will call Jim and whom TI first met in Nanaimo 30 years ago, dropped into the office and left “two dollars for Ol’ Bill.” Today’s mail brings another from Alert Bay from a friend of a good deal less than 30 years standing. One of my closest friends, out Ladner way, with a little help, went out and raised eight dollars in subs and donations. But the dollars count, too! Here’s one from Prince George, “a little push on the wagon.” And another old friend who is blind now and dependent on an old age pension, left a dollar out of his measly allowance of $20 a month. He must have gone short of something to do it. I won’t mention the others, for I could use up the whole column doing so—and I don’t mention any names because that would mean discrimination and persecution. We're Still In the Drive! Grease! Do you know that the privately-owned electric % light companies of Ganada and the US are or— ganized on an international basis? Well, they are, and their or Banization is called the National Mlectric Light Association. Maybe it should be dubbed “an alien organization” by the Canadian people, as the mine-owners are now speaking of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers’ Union, but we'll pass that up for the present. A few years ago. a United States government department, the Federal Trade Commission, held an investigation into the monopo- listic character of the National Electric Light Association. One of the facts which was discovered by the investigation was that the National Electric Light Association was spending from $25,0000,000 te $30,000,000 annually on newspaper propaganda for private-ownership of public utilities. They paid advertising sharks to have inserted as editorials in be— tween 13,000 and 14,000 daily and weekly newspapers (not including the Buzzard), articles written by men in the Pay of the electrie light companies—all to prove the superiority of private over public owner Ship of the electric light system, most of which were lies. In four years, one advertising firm in Salem, Oregon, placed 3328 such edi- torials in papers which covered 48 states for which they received 284,000 a year. Now, just think what we could do if we had that much money. It woudl be easier, too, because we would be telling the truth. How- ever, we'll have to be satisfied with less. Now, coming back to the dollars, suppose €very reader of the Advocate, after digesting that item about the thirty million dollars spent by the electrie light com- panies to befuddle him, just made up his mind to send a dollar for our drive: EVERY READER. That would bring in between ten and twelve thousand dollars. i told Bill Gee about this idea yesterday and he thought it was so good, he said, “OK, Bill, put me down for the first dollar’ So there’s a start! How about ail the other readers? Can we make it? Tt shouldn’t be so hard, and the Advocate would go places in your interest. True To The Union Steamship company of New Zealand is a €PR concern. Tt is not Surprising, therefore, Form. to learn that the money-srubbing policies of the : ; the Union Steam- ship company’s handling of Questions arisins out of the war situation. The seamen who man the Ships of that company, with experience of sea-raiders of the last wax; ocean-soing U-boats operating West African coast, and probably in the Canary Islands and the Carib- bean, as well as being fuelled any time, have already approached the company for war bonuses in addition to their ordinary rates of pay. They have been turned down, as the company denies that they are i that they have no right to But when it comes to selling tickets to the same ships through the same “safe” these same Ships, Passengers journeyine on t : zones, or freight carried on that iS an entirely different matter! centage as “war-risk” Same reason. : If the shipowners and the underwriters are justified in demanding increased rates from passengers and shippers, and they are, the sea- men are also justified in their demands. The attitude of the ship-owners in refusing the legitimate demands of the season is the same kind cf profiteering as that of the Sharks who raise the price of sugar and other commodities, and should be dealt with in the same way. : Those heads of democracies and social-democra- cies who rushed hot-foot to protest against the Soviet Union encroaching on the independence of Finland, had little need to. President Kalinin made this clear in his reply to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. History does not record that any of the democratic statesmen fell Over themselves in any way, to make protests in the spring of 1931 When the fascist rulers of Finlan , inspired and egsged on by Tory reactionaries in England, were Proposing to seize part of Soviet Kerelia by violence. That they did not do so was due entirely to the readiness of the Red army to defend the Soviet borders. The Finnish people have no eccasion to fear the Soviets whose desires have always been for Peace on their borders. But that does not mean that the Soviet Union will allow Finland to be made a spring-— board for German-Finnish fascists to attack their Soviet land. z Protests! Fifth There was an organization in England when the Cc I war broke out, called the Link. It was disbanded o1umn. immediately the war started. Its membership were all Hitlerites. Sir Samuel Hioare described it in the House of Commons as,.“an instrument of the German propaganda service’ Twenty-seven members of the House of Commons belonged to it, as did twenty-seven members of the House of Lords. Among: them were Lord Londonderry, Lord Redesdale, Lord Arnold, Lord Brocket, Sir Arnold Wilson and ex-admiral Sir Barry Domyile. These people are all atlarzse. They should be in internment camps with the other Wazis Sir Barry Domvile was formerly Chief of Naval Intelligence. If the Admiralty were to investigate these English Nazis it might find out how it was possible for a German submarine to fet into the anchorage at Scapa Flow and Sink a British battleship. 7 s In another part of the paper you will read of the ee t Miss death of Charlie Beasor, one of the heroic band is. who fought against fascism in Spain. Charlie is gone. We cannot do anything to help him. But there are others who can be helped here in Canada, in Vancouver and in Spain. One of the boys received a Red Cross letter the other day from one of the prisoners still in Burgos, Charlie Seanlan. His letter is short but it could not say more if it were the size of a family bible Here it is: “Just a line to let you know we are still here and we think we are fergotten. Please send money, Papers, books and 3 few letters, Thanis. That is all there is room for on the Red Gross routine form, but it is plenty. There are three of them there, and you can cheer them all if you do what Charlie Scanlan asks. Don’t write to me—write Straight to him. Send him a dollar, a paper, a book, a letter, or all four. He has earned it. Here is the address: Gharles Patrick Scanlan, Campo de Concentracion, San Pedro de Cardena, Burgos, Spain.