oe b Dr. Norman Famous Surgeon, Dead NEW YORK, NY—Dr. Norman Bethune, great Canadian in China from an infection incurred while performing an operation, it was learned here this week. ember i, 1939. cg THE ADVOCATE Page Thres emand For Peace Growin the Stretford division depriving millions of electors mocracy for which, all fought. munist stands for creases, for bigger allowances for old age Pensions, and for Communist stands for workin tory of socialism.” There are good prospects British Communist Move Smashes Political Truce LONDON, Eng.—In a move which smashes the existing political truce among Conservative, Liberal and Labor parties, the Communist party has nominated Eric Gower as its candidate to contest the forthcoming by-election in of Lancashire. At the beginning of the war, Conservative, Liberal and Labor parties agreed not to fight byelections but to allow the party holding the seat to return the new member, thus an arrangement is, of course, parties declare, the war is being The Daily Worker said last week that the or against the war. The tory peace, for ending the war, for wage in- ford, which is an engineering center. The Stretford Trades council declares that the present war is imperialist and de- mand an immediate peace conference. of their right to vote. Such a complete negation of de- “fight is for stands for war. The Com- for the soldiers’ dependents, full democratic rights. The g class unity and for the vic- for a stirring fight in Stret- ‘ thoracic surgeon, died For the past two years, the in charge of the Chinese base ho Wews of Dr. Bethune’s déath was conveyed in a telesram from Ye- man, North Shensi, sent by General | Chu Teh, commander-in-chief of the Bishth Route Army, and Gen- eral Peng Teh-hwai. The curt Message read: “Unfortunate injury while oper- atin=e and resultant septicemia caused the death of Dr Norman Bethune in Wuitaishan, Shansi_ “Bighth Route Army mourns medical hero and conveys deepest eendolences to family and friends.” in 1936, Dr. Bethune left his post @s chief surgeon at the Sacred Heart Hospital in Montreal to as- Sume leadership of the Canadian Medical Mission serving the Leyal- ist forces in Spain. At that post, he developed a2 wide and efficient system of blood transfusion which was one of the Miracles of the Spanish war. Slood was received from donors ‘2 lots, classified and bottled, and shen sent to the front. After returninse from service in Spain, he volunteered his services to the China Aid Council and in February, 1938, sailed for China with Miss Jean Ewen, Vancouver murse, a5 members of the first American medical mission to China. S For almost two years, prior +o i 2lmost is death, he operated the hospital of the International Peace Cam- Paign in Wouitaishan. As in Spain, he worked under unbelievable difficulties, MEN! --. Dress Up This Fall Ina REGENT SUIT or OVERCOAT ® Better Styling ® Better Tailoring ® Better Materials $21.50” fe A Word to the Wise: Prices Are Going Up — ORDER NOW! & "yn oat a[nnttsete Hoan hc ua ven ‘Qur low rental location en- ables us to sell for less and Give greater values ... Buy from the old established firm known for quality! REGENT TAILORS. 324 West Hastings Street SEymour 5614 ) : ; < $ Dr. R. Llewellyn Bethune, Canadian specialist had been spital at Wuitaishan, Shansi. > DR. NORMAN | imposed not only by war condi- tions, but by the shortage of the Simzplest essentials mecessary for the practice of medicine and surg- ery. indicative of this condition is a recent letter in which Dr. Bethune wrote: I have one pound of ether left and enough gauze and packing for another month. For China’s sake, do something!” Tt was believed here that the shortage of antiseptic material as well as his heroie self-denial con- tributed to Dr. Bethune’s death. Born at Gravenhurst, Ont. 49 years ago, Dr. Bethune was the son of Rev. Malcolm Bethune. He obtained his medical degree at Toronto university and served during the last world war with the Canadian forces. 2 Chinese In Siam Are Persecuted BANGEKOE, Siam. — Japanese propaganda, insidiously conducted here over the past decade, has cul- mnated in the recent open policy of discrimination pursued by the Thailand government at the ex- pense of the Chinese community. This policy was aggravated last July when Siamese auhtorities were alleged to have secretly sign- @ed an anti-Communist agreement with Japan. It has resulted in the emigration of numerous Chinese residents and closing of at least four Chinese newspapers and nine Chinese schools. Irritated by Chinese patriotism, Siam’s 1,100,000 Chinese contribut- ed more than $1,400,000 to China during the last July 7 anniversary —the Japanese allesedly approach- ed Thailand authorities demandins closing down of the Kuomintans and the arrest of its 10,000 mem- bers. Thailand authorities com- plied with the demand, imprisoned er deported those Chinese found in possession of patriotic docu- ments, DENTIST Local Labor Parties Oppose Official Policy Of Leaders LONDON, Ens. — Indicative of against the shameful policy of ment followed by Labor party and trade union leaders resolutions passed by lecal Labor past month. Co-ops Hit By Food Rationing Discrimination Brings Angry ‘Workers’ Protests LONDON, Ene —The Sreatest offensive of the war this weel Was on the ‘kitchen front,’ with the British big business and its Press conducting a nation-wide attack on the cooperative move- ment as part of the general of fensive against the People’s liyv- ing standards. Maldistribution of food sup- Plies has led to a situation where adequate supplies are guaranteed to the wealthy but restricted to the cooperative societies serving maillions of wage earners. Members of the societies con- tend that two main principles are being operated to the advan- tage of private multiple traders and to the disadvantage of the movement. They claim the datum line fixed for supplies is abnormal. Returns for sales of bacon and butter were sent in for five weeks in June and July, and the two lowest weeks of sales were Selected as the basis by the Gov-— ernment, But in the case of private trad- ers the datum line was fixed on the basis of speculative turn— Overs, the mutiple concerns hay- ing laid in large stocks in anti- cipation of the crisis. Consequently the cooperative Societies, whose membership has considerably increased since July, are unable to meet normal demands, especially as supplies have been restricted 60 percent on the low datum line. It naturally follows that co- operative trading under any ra- tioning scheme is endangered be- cause ability to supply is ren- Gered uncertain. So serious has the situation be— come that suggestion for a one— day protest strike of all workers in Scotland was advanced at a recent emergency meeting of the Scottish Cooperative Wholesale Society. Similarly, Cardiff Cooperative Women’s Guild has suggested a nation-wide march of women to protest rising food prices and in- equalities of distribution. MARGERINE AND MACON. While the capitalist press daily describes how cheerful the Bri- tish people are as prices rise, liberties vanish and substitute foods appear, the offensive against their living standards is conducted with a vigor calculated to net Britain’s capitalists maxi- mum returns. The government first an- nounced the rationing of bacon. Now it proposes ‘macon’ to re place the genuine article. Sheep- flesh is to be smoked and cured instead of pig flesh. This food is officially termed ‘mutton bacon’ but the publie has quickly found the name ‘macon’ for it. it was also announced last week that a big drive was on to make the public eat margerine instead of butter. The fovern- ment press, with touchine con- cern for the workers’ pockets, emphasizes that butter will inevi-_ tably rise in price but that mar- gerine is cheap. Margerine may be cheap in price but it is ex pensive for the health of British children. ; A Ministry of health circular saying that the government does not recommend butter for evacu- ated families, has already been revealed in the press. These things are not trivial. Wothing is more serious. These things, taken with the attack on the workers’ liberties through emergency powers regulations, show how disastrously war is af fecting the lives of the people. They reveal in real life how this war ‘against the Nazis’ must be- come under the present British rulers a war against the people. Richards at Hastings e SEymour 5577 ¢ es fale aa : > > Srowing w collaboration with orking class resentment the Chamberlain govern- is the flood of protest parties and trade unions during the These resolutions are a clear expression of British workers’ demands that their so-called leaders break with a government which is warring on the British people. They reveal too, the desire of the British working class for peace. Representing over 50,000 manual and professional workers in Edinburgh, the recent conference of Edinburgh Trades coun= cil and Burgh Labor party declared that: “It is clear that the declarations of the government of a de- termination to defend democratic institutions and smash Hit- lerism are hollow shams, design ed to mask the true nature of its policy, which is simply to shackle the workers more securely to the imperialist war machine, using them as a means to prevent the rise of a rival imperialism privileges of a small, wealthy Britain.” The resolution in which this de- nuneciation of the Ghamberlain Bovernment was embodied was passed by the conference with only one dissentient vote. The main note running through the conference discussion was un- animous condemnation of the TLa- bor party and trade union leader- ship ,against whose collaboration With the government all speakers strongly -protested. Glasgow Burezh TDabor party, with 50,000 members, has passed by a large majority a resolution calling for peace. it goes on to demand that the Gabor and trade union movements cease their co-operation with the soevernment, and that they take a stand to force the end of the war and calling of a peace conference. Hilisbero’ Divisional Tiabo be party (Sheffield) has rejected the Labor party manifesto calling for cooperation with the government, and demands that the leadership adopt a new policy.