Page Four THE ADVOCATE British Newspaperman Interviews Communist Leader Directs Party From ‘Somewhere In France’ LONDON, Eng.— (Passed by British Censor) .— “Somewhere in France” Maurice Thorez, beloved general secretary of the French Communist party, is this day directing the activities of French Communists in the valiant battle to end the imperialist war and establish rule of the people in France. Sam Russell, France for the London Daily Worker and New Work Daily Worker has just had a striking in- terview with Thorez and reported his message to the workers of the world, jarticularly the working class of Britain. Thorez declared that the French Gemmunist party is still active de- spite all attempts by the Daladier imperialist government to suppress it. It is still leading the workers and winning growing support, Thorez said. “TJ met a guide,” reports Russell, “somewhere in Hrance ready.=te travel somewhere else At the Gestination I was whisked away to a spot I could not find again if £ wanted to. “There 1 found Maurice Thorez, the man who still leads the people of France in their struggle against their enemies. He did not have the air of a mar hunted. I have never seen Thorez more confident jn the Communist party, in his correspondent comrades and in the future of the French people. “Waladier and the treacherous leaders of the French Socialist party are all furious at our de- nunciation of the imperialist MEN! Dress Up This Fall in a REGENT SUIT or OVERCOAT © Better Styling @ Better Tailoring @ Better Materials $21.50” A Word to the Wise: Prices Are Gomg Up — ORDER NOW! 7 Our low rental location en- ables us to sell for less and give greater values ... Buy from the old established firm known for quality! 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To- morrow the entire nation will proclaim the truth from the housetops’.” “What do you think of the role of the British imperialist?” asked Russell. “British policy for the past 20 years shows two things,” Thorez answered. “Every time French ca- pital tried to take advantage of the 1918 victory, it came against the opposition of Britain, and ev- ery time Germany advanced to the disadvantage of France, she was helped by Britain- “Having favored Hitler Germany in order to weaken the positions of France in Europe and having sacrificed Czechoslovakia and Spain to international fascism, the Britain of Chamberlain wishes to make use of France in order to fight Hitler for imperialist hege— mony in Europe and the world. “We love the British people and do not wish to confuse them with the British government. And we do not confuse the German people with their masters of the moment We are acting as true defenders of the French people by not wish- ing the youth of our country to be thrown into the slaughter caus- ed by the British capitalists in their struggle of interests with German capitalists.” “Tow is the Communist party facing the persecution to which it is subjected?” asked Russell. PARTY FIRM. “Some deserted because of fear, others because they were agents of the enemy,” said Thorez, “but what does that matter alongside the firmness Shown by the mass of the comrades in prison, at liber- ty or in} the army. Comrades, dep- uties and militants, hunted and imprisoned, are showing the will to struggle and the self-sacrificing spirit of the Communists. “The mass of the people remain faithful to the party and its rep- resentatives in parliament and the localities. The Communist munici- palities have been suspended, but the people now see that the au- thorities have placed in the town halls their tools who were rejected by popular vote. The people have also seen that these creatures of the frovernment pre pyiless in action against the small people, the unemployed and the poor.” “What will you do now?” asked Russell. “With the comrades in the Iead- ership of the party,” Thorez an- swered, “I will continue the strug- gle. Make no mistake, the party lives and will triumph. “The press stated that I deserted from the Army. I would have been a deserter if I had done everything necessary in order to remain at my post in the class battle which the Erench people must wage against the warmongers, the fasc- ists and the capitalist exploiters.” Thorez added that the Commun- 1 ist party would defend the peas- 4 ants, 3 diers and small shopkeepers, their wives. “What we are unable to do with the sol- " pamphlets we will achieve by oth- er means, more discreet but none- theless effective,’ "he said. “The Communist party will fight with all its power against the im- perialist war, for our country and against the government During the first imperialist war it was necessary to wait three years be- fore the working class movement awoke in the factories and at the front. “Today things are going much faster.’ GARFIELD A. KING BARRISTER, ETS. 653 Granville Street SEymour 1324Vancouver, B.C. lindian, Chinese Leaders Meet PANDIT J. NEHRU, All-India National Congress leader, ar- rives at Chungking, China, where he is met by his host, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Madame Chiang Kai-shek. ‘eek In The House (Continued from Page 1) gets his facts mixed up with his very unoriginal theories. On Monday Anscombe chose to wind up a speech notable chiefly for its inaccuracy by recounting an incident which, he alleged, had oc- eurred at Sydney on Vancouver fsland. He told of a woman communist —although, since he said he didn’t know the difference between a2 CGFer and a Communist, one won- Gered what he would term a com- munist—who had gone “too far afield in addressing a meeting at Sydney.” The citizens of Sydney, so he said, “were so incensed they took the matter into their own hands— made the lady understand that communism had no place in this community. ‘As ga result, she found it took her some three weeks before she could sit down in comfort” Wone of the Conservagqive or Liberal members questioned this story, presumably because none of them wanted to. Therefore its veracity went unchallenged. But Mrs. Laura Jamieson (CCF, Vancouver Centre) had the retort opposite. “T thought sadism was confined to the fascist countries,” she said. “But I think the member’s refer- ences to the affair at Sydney were a fine example of a man unable to get the physical thrill he wants by killing men on the battlefield so he takes it vicariously by talk- ing of violence on the body of a2 woman.” WINCH CAPITULATES. Tt was left to Harold Winch, leader of the CCF group, however, to make the most ignominious showing of all. Under pressure from Liberals and Conservatives and capitulating before the criti- cism of a commercial press which is now praising him, the younger Winch, Kautsky-fashion, chose to follow the path or Social-Demo- eratic parties in the last imperial- ist war and in this. Im a speech laden with contra- dictions he reiterated his earlier statement that the CCH “recogniz- ed that while this was a capitalist- ic war, it was also a war for demo- eracy.” Just how he reconciles the contradiction in this remarkable statement he did not attempt to say. Nor did he elaborate on his contention that the CCF could give full support to the war and still apposite. Despite his rationalizing and his statements that the speech made earlier by Mrs. Steeves and Cam- eron did not clash with his own jnitial declaration of policy, since they dealt “with other phases,” Winch succeeded only in clarify- ing the gulf between the anti-war position of Mrs. Steeves and Cam- eron and his own pro-war stand. Last week I wrote that the CCH had lost a fellow traveller in Tom Uphill (Gab,, Fernie). It would have been more correct to say that Wphill and Winch, accom- panied by an undeclared number of CCE members, are still travel- ling the shameful path of Social Democracy together towards its log- ical end. The only difference is that Uphill is travelling without any pretense. French Civil Rights Swept Away By Decree PARIS, France. — The military-fascist dictatorship over France was tightened today in a series of decrese issued by Justice Minister Georges Bonnet. Under the decrees, the come. jurisdiction of military tribunals is established over all cases aris- ing from any acts which may be interpreted by the authorities as undermining the state. The decrees also provide one to five years imprisonment as penal- ty for an act of any nature which may weaken the state’s defenses. The decrees are of such sweeping nature that under them a woman who grumbles at the rise of prices could be charged with “undermin- ing” the state and sentenced to prison. From now on cases will be taken directly from 2 Military examining magistrate to 4 mili- tary tribunal without first pass- | Labeg thyough the jaccusations Dr. R. Llewellyn Douglas DENTIST chamber of the Supreme Court as heretofore. All rights of appeal from mili- tary tribunals to civil courts, if based on errors of procedure, are abolished. All appeals from military tribun- al] decisions must be made within 24 hours and can only be taken to military courts of appeal. Only in cases where a revision is asked because new facts have been uncovered can 2 condemned man appeal to civil courts. The new decrees, according to legal authorities, will be used in the prosecution of Communist deputies and trade union leaders, jailed recently because they advo- cated peace. Richards . at Hastings ) SEymour 5577 SSSSSSS SS SSS SOS SO SSO SOOO HOSP S OOP OPP OP Thorez In Angus MacInnis Says | BC Labor Minister — Should Be In Court Declaring the trouble at Pioneer today is not so much 3” dispute between employees and Lawyers | Hit Dies Committee American Democracy Threatened, Asserts San Francisco Guild SAN FRANCISCO, Cal—if Am- erican democracy and the Bill of Rights are to be maintained, par- ticularly “in the face of a develop— ing world war,” “propaganda groups such as the Dies Commiut- tee must be condemned by the American people,” this week de- clared the San Francisco chapter of the Lawyers’ Guild in a publish- pamphlet reviewing the activities of the Dies Committee since its inception. Issued in an edition of 500 copies, the pamphlet is entitled “In the Gourt of Public Opinion, Indict- ment of the People of the United States of America vs. the Dies Committee,” with the Wational Lawyers Guild local chapter as “Attorneys for the People.” The Guild urges Congress turn down Rep. Martin Dies’ request for more funds for continuance of his witch-hunting committee. Pointing out that red-baiting is followed by attacks on liberal or- ganizations and trade unions “on the pretext that they are commun- istic,’ the Lawyers Guild warns: “Thus, what began as a purport ed attack on communism, culmin- ates in the real objective, the de- struction of democracy. The (Dies) CGommittee’s repeated violations of the United States constitution show this process already in an advanced stage. “This technique cannot succeed unless the people are suffering, economically or undergoing emo- tional strain. Such was the situa- tion in Germany and Italy. ACTIVITIES DANGERODS. “Today in the United States, in the face of a developing world war, the American people are subject to a great emotional strain. Just as in the last world war, emotional patriotism may readily be directed against any group or groups by pure propaganda In times of stress the lack of factual support for an attack does not render it less effective. “Ferein lies the real danger from the activities of the Dies Commit- tee. Our investigation has disclos- ed that the attack by the Dies Gommittee on liberal organiza- tions, liberal individuals and trade unions as communistic, and hence un-American without regard to the actual activities of those so labelled follows the FE'ascist and Wazi pattern. President Rooseveit has stated that in these times it is of vital importance for the preser- vation of democracy in the United States that no rumors and charges be accepted without a thorough in- vestigation of the facts. The tech- nique of the Dies Committee vio- lates this principle. If American democracy and the Bill of Rights are to be maintained, propaganda froups such as the Dies Commit- tee must be condemned by the Am- erican people.” : Youth Congress Assails Dies NEW YORK, Ny.—G@CN)—De mnouncing the Dies Committee for “provoking war hysteria with witch-hunting methods” the Na- tional Assembly of the American Youth Congress is calling upon its thousands of members to circulate a petition, drawn up by the as- sembly, throughout the US schools and YMCA’s, calling upon Con- gress to disband the inquisition committee as a threat to demo- employer as it is a dispute be tween miners and the government, Angus MacInnis, CCF MP speaking to a meeting in Moose hall Monday, was caustic in — his criticism of Labor Minister George S. Pearson for assuming ~ the role of prosecutor rather than that of arbitrator in the Pioneer mine strike and subsequent trials. aaa The meeting, 800 persons, was organized by the and Smelter Workers’ union fo rally public support for striking Pioneer miners. x “In my opinion Pearson ought to be in court and not the min ers,” declared Macinnis amid 4 burst of applause as he related steps taken by the Pioneer Min- ers’ union to have a commission — er sent in to conciliate the dis- pute. The request, he said, was” ignored and an investigator ap pointed instead. =f “The minister has the authorp to apprehend a dispute, but he fr no authority to send in an inves gator,” he continued, “for nowhere made of an investigator. In faci I think the government has sasia to the company, in effect, ‘you stand aside and we'll handle this for you’.” . SAYS STRIEE JUSTIFLED. Dealing with the clause relative to unions organized prior to Dec the opinion that this was an at in BC. Assuming their applicatien for the miners were justified in go- ing on strike, the federal MP stated. “Two issues are involved in this , dispute, one of which is the right to organize and the right to col- lective bargaining which can oniy be done through a trade union,” Macinnis stated. ‘Canada has long been a paradise for non-union employers,” ued MacInnis, citing figures re leased by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics to show that of 2,754,05% wage earners in Canada only 235- in 1937, or about 10 percent | “This is not only a struggle of miners of Pioneer, and of the oar ganized labor movement, but of every Man, woman and child look those things we hear so much about today.” HUGE PROFITS MADE. Charles M. Stewart, chairman of the Vancouver Trades and Labor Council’s organizing committee, speaking as a member of an AFL union, stated that scarcely a day passed without one or more miners losing their lives while mine-owa- its, paying those who did the work @ Mere pittance. A former hardrock miner hime self, Stewart said he understood other hardrock mining camp where the average life of a miner is placed at seven years. “If he does not die or is not killed that time, then he is practically dead of miners’ consumption,” Stewart declared. “Those in the AHI, moyement who state there is no room for the CIO are playing the roll of scabs and strikebreakers and I’m not 50 sure that Mr. Pearson is not in that class also,” he asserted. Stewart recounted the struggle conducted by the Western Pedera- tion of Miners in the nineties for the nine-hour day to show that this is not the first time miners have sought legislative changes: C. E. Fitzgerald, a striker, gave a resume of events leading up t the strike, and Mrs. Wilson, wilé higher wages is justified. dents of Pioneer, she said, pay goods. 3 = NOTICE HOUSE PARTY at J. Mc Hjorth Road, Surrey, SATURDAY, NOV. 18th, at come. eracy. + SPECIAL! 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