18 i OS SEROMA ER EY! OTS « 15, 1939 THE ADVOCATE Page Five extra chair with what Bring BUY FURNITURE BOMINION’S prices are lower! you save on any one of DO- MIENION’S beautiful, UNION-BUILT chesterfield Suites. SSS r Home. . SSNs Joy to You FOR XMAS! You can purchase an VV VEC VR NEUAVEVE UNE VEU NEU VRVR VME LE UA VEO WUR VA VANE VE Ve NEN RUD st SERBS llss SSS SS SSS SSS SSS SS Twelve Branches Of Defense League Formed “The tremendous response to our campaign to re-organize the Canadian Labor Defense Leasue shows that British Colum- bians are keenly aware of the threat to their civil liberties and are determined to defend them,’ George Drayton, provincial organizer for the CLDIL told the Advocate this week. The CLDL in BC is launching a drive for a 31000 defense fund as Part of a national campaign to raise $6000 to defend a number of persons arrested under the War Measures Act and Defense of Can- ada Regulations, Drayton said. Twelve branches have now been established in several provincial centers with several others in pro- eess of formation. Siz of the CLDL branches or- Sanized are in the city. Genter branch already has a membershp of 55, while other branches in Vancouver East, Te- ecumseh, Collingswood East, Kitsi- lane, South Hill and Vancouver Heights are reported to be enrol- ling new Members every week. Elsewhere in the province branches have been organized at Victoria, Cumberland, Prince Ru- pert, Esquimalt, WNew Westmin- ster and in the Okanagan Valley. Reports from Prince Rupert state that reorganization of the CLDIL there has met with ready re- sponse. At Cumberland a branch formed last Sunday elected a tem- porary executive to carry on busi- mess until a general meetings can be called in January. Officials are confident that membership will e=sceed the 200 mark reached when the CLD counted the mining cen- ter as a stronghold several years ago. CLDL Defends Jobless Man Sentence of one month in Oak alla was passed by Magistrate Mc- Kenzie Matheson in police court Wednesday on John Jans, Relief Project Workers’ union member, for begging as charged under VWa- Srancy D of the Criminal Code. Jans was arrested Tuesday by Police officers for soliciting funds to provide 60 cents a day for single unemployed men deniied relief. Defense Counsel Mussailem, re- tained by Canadian Labor Defense League, in arguins for dismissal, cited the case of British miners convicted in 4 similar trial several years ago and reversed by Chisf Justice Cave of Court of Queen’s Bench, who held that collecting for an organization was not begsgins. Magistrate Matheson ruled that the collection sheet implied that he money would be used by the accused and found him Suilty.~ ADVOCATE CLASSIFIED These merchants and professional men offer you their services at competitive prices. columns they support your paper. 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Pender St. TATLORS M DONG, TATLORS, formerly Horseshoe Tailors now at 8 West Gordova St. TRinity 6024. NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIAN SEE DR. DOWNIE FOR RHEU- matism, Sciatica, Lammbazo. Room 7 — 163 West Hastings St. ———— PERSONAL CONSULT THE BUDDHIST BiB- “liecal Astrology; Love, Sex Prob- _lems. 2438 Dundas St, Vancou- BICYCLES AND REPATES se BICYGLES, NEW AND USED — Baby Carriages, Sulkies, Doll Gar- riages, Joycycles. Repairing of all kinds. Saws filed, keys cut, ete. W. M. Ritchie, 1568 Commercial Drive. Highland 4123. FISHERMEN CONVENE P Recommend Seiners’ unions. delegates from all fishing unions, would be chartered by the Trades and Labor Congress. It would fa- cilitate and coordinate the work of all unions dealing with legisla- tive matters, leaving unions free to carry on organization work, delegates were informed by W-. Burgess, United Fishermen’s un- ion secretary, and George Miller, Salmon Purse Seiners’ union busi- mess agent, during the four-day session ended Saturday. Conservation of herring and sal- mon. by immediate introduction of a Stream cleaning program was urged in a resolution from Soin- tula local. Many streams are clog- ged by logsinge operations, thus preventing salmon from gaining access to their natural spawning srounds, the resolution stated. Harold Jz Pritchett, recently re-elected as president of the CIO international Woodworkers’ union, im a brief address on Friday touch- €d on this point and stressed the need for reforestation and con- servation of forests to preserve these spawning grounds and pre- vent them drying up. A. W. Neill, veteran independent MP for Comox-Alberni, in urging passage of three resolutions, stated he did not come to the convention tc pay compliments but to find out what fishermen want and do not want. Resolutions advocated by Weill and approved by delegates stressed the need for: Wegotiation of a treaty between Canadian and Jap- anese governments regulating fishing outside the three-mile limit of British Columbia waters; halt ing of herring reduction for fertil- izer; appointment of A. J. Whit more as deputy minister of fisher- ies, because of his familiarity with Pacific coast fishing problems. Prosecution of those profiteer- ing im foodstuffs, resulting in prices being 15 to 20 percent — higher now than before outbreak Of Joint Union Council Formation of a joint council of fishermen’s unions to weld more closely the existing unity among organized fishermen and facilitate the work of the unions was given full support of some 90 delegates attending the Pacific Coast Fishermen’s union fourth annual convention in the city last week-end. The ex- ecutive board was instructed to work toward that end with the coordinating committee of United Fishermen and Salmon Purse The council, to be composed of@ of war despite a greater surplus Formation SHORT JABS by OF Bill of everything, was demanded in a2 resolution addressed to the federal sovernment. Norman McKenzie, field work- er for British Columbia university extension department and organ- izer for credit unions, outlined the purpose of credit union organiza- tion. . An appeal for greater unity be- tween Japanese fishermen and whites was made by T. Suzuki rep- resenting Upper River Japanese Fishermen’s Association. Similar sentiments were expressed by President Percy Sabin, who, while mot holding out much hope for amicable relations with older Jap- anese, did state that the younger Canadian-born Japanese under- stood the problems and would co- operate. Speaking of the Indian popula- tion, Sabin declared, “We must help the Indians extricate them- selves from the fetters placed on them by white governments and white exploiters who took every— thing from them and gave nothings in return,’ expressed the view that they should be given full political and economic rights. Other speakers heard during the sessions were: Mayor Lyle Telford, who opened the convention with a brief address on Wednesday; Ald. Halford Wilson and Grant Mac- Weill, CCF MP. Perey Sabin was again chosen president and A. VY. Hill was re- elected secretary-treasurer; Rob- ert Wolfe, vice-president; Harry Colett, Gibson’s Landing, second vice-president; executive board members are Len Palmberg, Pred Daukkanen, New Westminster; Mrs. Taylor, Nanaimo; Clayton Hibbert, Cape Mudge; Denis Har- old, Deep Bay; Walter Jacobson, Woodward’s Slough; Harold Malm, sointula; Ted Lee, Angus Weish, Jack Gavin, Bob Hammond and Dan Martin, all of Vancouver. NEWS OF THE DRIVE a donation of $10. Cumberland; © Quesnel, Vancouver and New Westminster are all making a strong bid for first place, with Cumberland and South Vancouver promising late returns in efforts to win the pro- Vincial trophy. In the city, South Vancouver is still well in the lead over its near- est competitor, Hastings Eiast, while, on the Island, Cumberland continues to maintain first place. First committee in the province te go over the top, Enderby is lead- ing the Okanagan, New Westmin- ster the Fraser Valley, and Trail the Kootenays. in Worthern BG, Quesnel, former provincial banner winner, is making strenuous ef- forts to hold the coveted honors. During the drive, 1232 subscrip- tions, new and renewals, were ob- tained, 100 more than in the last Ccampaisn, while 6,000 tickets for dance and social events were sold throughout the province. A bulletin showing the standing of all committees and givins de- tails of receipts and disbursements, together with the audit committee report, will be published within the next few days. Each committee will receive two copies. All committees are requested to Send in immediately names and 2ddresses of boosters eligible for prizes for outstanding work. Those who have raised $5 will receive a colored map of Europe; those rais-— ing $10, the Tuife of Lenin, by R. Palm Dutte; those raising $25, Grapes of Wrath, by J. Steinbeck. Re-elect Pritchett IWA President SEATTLE, Wash. Harold J. Pritchett was reelected president of International Woodworkers of America for his third consecutive term this week as final ballots were counted, thus giving him a clear margin over Al. Hartung, his only epponent. Hartung was leader of a red-baiting drive to oust Pritchett from leadership of the union. Returned to office with Pritchett were Vice-President OQ. M. Orton and Secretary-Ireasurer Bertel J. McCarty. A third post, that of sec- ond-vice-president, created by the referendum vote, elected Worth Lowry, of Columbia River district. Committees $4000 Quota Sought Making last-minute efforts to put their committees over the top in the press drive ending this Saturday, Advocate boosters this week sent the total over the $4,000 objeetive. Outstanding contributions came from the Industrial sroup, which boosted its total to 97 percent of its $600 quota, and from Nanaimo local of the United Mine Workers union, which made Souths Exceed Committee Standings Following are the standings of all Advocate press drive commit- tees in the province as at Wednes-— Gay, Dee. 13. Amt. Pct. GREATER VANCOUVER— South Vancouver ...$258.34 137 Mastings East ...... 147.11 147 Bitsivano 2228) 2 + eo 113.13 133 West Emd ... _.... 438.75 i25 North Vancouver SdL.07 i02 industrial: -.222)55.-5 585.55 97 Mount Pleasant .... 189.32 94 Grandview ......... 129.35 30 Worth Burnaby ..... 59.10 635 Mast nd) 222-2 2.2 289.52 538 Professional ....... 84.50 ae OOM Tesill See ee 297.71 297 Miscellaneous ...... 35.00 OKRANAGAN— Bmderby: 222 205-2 25 45.00 112 Salmon Arm ........- 27.00 30 Relowna = =~. =: sae 22.75 Piss Wern Ones Soe eee 37.70 Ws Kamloops =....-.... 14.60 25.5 VASCOUVER ISLAND— Cumberland .......- 143.34 isl Wactoria, 9.2 es 125.96 104 INamaaImo. LONDON, Fng.—(Ass Press) — The Daily Press =e Don t Madrid correspondent of the Berlin Bor- Bother To Copy. sen Zeitung reports a message received from the Buenos Aires Figaro quoting the Watiean organ L’Osserva- tore Romano’s representative at Tokio who Says that the correspond-— ent of the Stockholms Tidningen at Timbuctoo relays a wire from the Copenhagen Social Demokraten stating that the Patawatami, NY, representative of the Mudpuddle-on-the-Slush (Eng) Vampire cables on authority of Oslo, Norway, Aften Posten, that 20 White Guard ski- jumpers have captured Vladivostok, killing 60,000 Russians, with the loss of one White Guard ski-jumper. 7 “Our father turned back the Armada A Windbag and Napoleon,—and we'll do it again . . Repeats. We came out on top when the Spanish declared war on us, just as we did with the French and Americans in the war of 1812. We toughen under resistance and that toughness will see us through.” Who is this speaking? Maybe you won’t believe it, but it is Gerry G. McGeer, KG, MP, ex-mayor of Vancouver. We and us used in the above quotations do not sound like the Gerry who told an audience in the Vancouver Hotel a couple of years ago that “none of the McGeer family had to join the army for a meal- ticket.” But it is the same suy addressing a mass meeting of UBC under-sraduates on the campus on Nov. 27. McGeer had no chance to help to defeat the Armada or Napoleon or the Spaniards or the Americans in the war of 1812. He has a chance to help today. We will see what his words are worth and what he does with the chance. A few days azo a younge lad who was in Victory Square when MecGeer read the Riot Act, was heard to say that he intends to join the army to help save the country from fascism, but he is going to wait and see which regiment McGeer joins. Would that make McGeer subject under the War Measures Act for prejudicing recruiting? The name of ex-President Hoover, one-— « 2 > time Tsar of all Uncle Sam’s territories, Humanitarian? has loomed largely in the press since the war of the Finnish Whites with the Soviet Union started. When Hoover, speaking of the opening of hostilities in Finland, told the US press, “It is a sad day to every decent and righteous man and woman,” T thought he was referring to that terrible day in Wash- ington about seven years ago, during his tenure of office, when he turned his militia loose te shoot down and teargas bomb the bonus marchers, the mén who did the fighting in France. Who is Hoover to speak for decent men and women, to speak of righteousness? When the bonus marchers killed in Washington were fighting in the hell of the Ghemin des Dames, of Chateau Thierry, of St. Mihiel and the Argonne, what was Hoover doing? Before the US went into the war, he was at the head of Belgian relief. When the country entered the war, Congress made him food commissioner and when the war was over (save the mark) he was made adminis- trator of the American Relief Commission in Hurope. That should have given him all kinds of opportunity to prove his Quaker charity; but did it? Ask Gol. Gregory, who was a sort of second in command to Hoover in the distribution of relief. You will find that not charity but polities was Hoover's fame, Cheating A Sovernment of their own; a soviet sov— Government. ernment. They were beset on all sides by the reactionary forces that had caused the war and were bent on dividing up Hurope for a new round of exploitation. The Hungarian soviet government needed food for the Hungarian people. They had the money to pay for it—in gold. Hoover’s committee agreed to supply them from stores in Paris if they were willing to pay—in advance. “To this they agreed and paid out most of the gold in their possession to the committee. : In 1919 the Hungarian people had a At the same time the Mungarian Social Democrats were putting forward the desirability of a Change of government which would save the country from the hatred of the capitalist nations. Bela Kain, the Communist leader, advised the people that such a sovernment would only be an intermediate form of government, until such time as the capitalists had succeeded in disarming the people, when it would be followed by a most reactionary Sovernment with white terror as its sole weapon. The Hoover Relief Commission played its part in this historic situation, by withholding the foodstuffs that had been paid for by the soviet government. Shipload after shipload was landed at the docks at Trieste and FPiume, stored in warehouses there and the Hoover Commission refused to release any of it until a RELIABLE fovern- ment was set up at Budapest. : These foodstuffs belonging to the Hungarian government were held for a couple of months so that the Starving Hungarians were unable to defend themselves against the well-fed and well-equipped armies of Czechoslovakia and Rumania. The rest is history. The Hungarian people were crushed under the white terror and Horthy has ruled the country ever since, Col. Gregory told the story himself. It Was published in a2 number of American magazines. The plan was cut and dried and participated in, according to Gregory, by Austen Chamberlain and Lord Birken- head. Hungary was to get a Social Democratic government which could easily be disposed of later. Wholesale executions of the soviet leaders were to take place and the country brought again within the folds of “Christian civilization’ Col. Gregory, back in the US, led the Frisco bosses in a struggle to crush the trade union movement in 1926, just as Hoover mowed down the bonus marchers in Washington. Now their hearts are bleed_ ing for their Nazi White Guard allies in Finland, = A Welsh physician writes in a recent Censorship number of the London News-Chronicle Sidelight. pointing out that the English sub-_tities in the Soviet picture Dr. Mamilock, shown in full in the United States and Canada, are blacked out in part in the Picture as it is being shown in Britain, The doctor says: “Now, this occurs only when the sub-titles make it quite clear that the anti-Nazi and anti-Hitler struggle of the German people—conducted with the most dauntless courage and at the risk of life itself—is led by the German Communists. Tis the British censor- ship unwilling then, that this fact be known to film-goers? Are they afraid that these same film-goers may regard it as exceeding strange that the government of France is persecuting and arresting those very people, who in this film (rightly So, I think) are depicted as heroic leaders in the fight for freedom and liberty?” Cc ; z From Bucharest comes the story that raitor s : ex-Marshal Smigly-Rydz has sent 4 Reward. complaint to the Rumanian government. He asks that “because of the insults to which he declares he is ex= posed at his place of enforced exile in southern Rumania, he should be transferred to some other town.” INo one, Gutside of the Wazis, insults the brave people of Warsaw who defended their town so well after being left In the lurch by the boaster and tool of imperialism, Smigly-Rydz. Making pers which could not appear in any History. newspaper in the Soviet Union. They may be used at some future date by historians writing of life on the Pacific Goast under the beneficient rule of Selwyn G Blaylock and Duff Pattullo. The first is from the Trail Times of Nov. 27. It was used by the advertising manager of that estimable sheet to show the effectiveness of the Trail Times as an advertisin= medium. Here it is: “Experienced girl will work for board and room. Box 2013, Trail Times.” We are informed that this ad. brought 23 replies. “What, only 23?” We don’t know how many replies the other ad. brought, but here it is. It is from the Vancouver Province of Nov. i4. “Imaperial yeteran on relief. Beekeeper, bachelor, 48, Scotch; good home; wishes to meet single Scotchwoman on relief, 35 to 40. Matrimony if suited. Box 2433 Province.” This -is thirty, but it’s all right. We have no comment to make. Here are a couple of ads. from BC pa- Sir Echo asics,