THE Page Three Was Border Center For Anti-Soviet Intrigue | THROUGHOUT CANADA December 22, 1939 ADVOCATE Terijoki Pa peer mapeeearerr tn aaa te Will Open Croatians City Home Six-Day Celebration To Mark Completion Of Modern Building - The culmination of nearly two years’ labor, involving con- siderable sacrifices on the part of its members and supporters, the Croatian Educational Alli- ances modern Educational Home at 600 Campbell avenue will be opened with a six-day celebration stariins Dec. 28 and continuing each evening until Jan. 2. Mayor Lyle Telford will open the concert next Thursday, while re- presentatives of labor and progres- Sive organizations will bring mes- Sages complimentine the organiza- tion on completion of what is Classed as one of the most modern buildinges of its kind in Vancouver. On Friday evening a banquet and dance will be heid and on Sat- urday many nationalities will take Bart in a concert of an interna- tional character. The dramatic section of the Cro- atian Alliance on Sunday evening will stage a play, to be followed by dancine after the New Year is ushered in. Dancing will be renewed Monday might and on Tuesday the executive plans a surprise affair. * The new Croatian Educational Home has cost nearly $40,000, most of which was contributed by some One thousand Croatians here. Constructed of steel and con- erete, it has an auditorium 58 by 50 feet with seatine capacity for 600 people. Im the basement there is a large room suitabie for ban- quets with a spacious kitchen at ene end. Several rooms through- @ut the building provide quarters X Gift A wide variety of patterns TIES... Ranging from English AESO A COMPLETE ERS, HATS, ETC. ETC. for musicians, library and study: ejlasses. SUGGESTIONS SHIRTS... = in Arrow and Tooke, from 1.65 Swiss. Silks, a 55¢ SOCKS... Hose at $1.00 to Wool Socks at _50¢e LINE OF SCARVES, GLOVES, SUSPEND- AM'S 62 West Hastmgs Street Oppesite Pierre Paris MEN! Dress Up This Fall ina o 2 REGENT SUIT or OVERCOAT © Better Styling e@ Better Tailoring e Better Materials $21.50” Red Army Arrtillerymen Bact SCENE during maneuvres on snow-covered terrain as stu- dents receive instruction in target sighting at one of the Soviet army's officers’ training schools. : Bellingham Vigilantes ‘Defied By Costigan BELLINGHAM, Wash.—‘Unless we protect our civil rights, our right to speak, there will be no protection in America against 33> war. This warning was given by Howard Costigan, executive sec- retary of Washington Commonwealth Federation, at a mass meet- ing held here in defiance of a threat that vigilantes would break it up. When the vigilante threat was received, International Fisherman and Allied Workers of America (CIO) meeting here in their first annual convention unanimously passed 2 resolution denouncing the bLooedlums. The fishermen placed blame for the recent Aberdeen vigilante out- rages, when hoodlums wrecked a hall, upon eity officials, the Ku Kiux Klan and the more recently organized “Better Business Build- ers, demanding that the LaFol- lette Senate Civil Liberties Com- mittee investigate. “These vigilantes, while masking their activities as an attack against Communism, Showed their true intent as a group seeking to de- stroy all organized labor by at- tacking the residences and meet ing places of both AFI and CIO trade unionists,’ the resolution as- serted. “If the Aberdeen outrage goes unchallenged, it will encourage these groups to launch 4 state-wide campaign against organized labor and all progressive organizations, which would wipe out all civil lib- erties and pave the way for repe- tition of the infamous Centralia Massacre in the Pacific WNorth- west,’ it concluded. In his speech, Costigan recalled that he was a high school student MT. PLEASANT BILLIARD HALL and BARBER SHOP Everything in Smokers’ Supplies Cigars Cigarettes Pipes Lighters — Etc. 2341 MAIN STREET in Centralia in 1919, when the mas- Sacre occurred. Declaring that it must not be allowed to occur again, Costigan spoke of the Aberdeen raid as a forerunner of a coming terror — unless vigilantism were erushed. Emphasizing that wiping out of Civil liberties is the first step to- ward war, Costigan said: “There is net an honest con- viction in those who kept silent durins the bombings of Spain, of Ethiopia, Austria, and Czecho- slovakia and in China and now want war. They opposed col- lective action for peace, but now they want collective action for war.” Labor League Launches Drive SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.—Labor’s Won-Partisan League here has launched a campaign to implement an eight-point program calling for defense of the Bill of Rights, more democratic city and state govern- ment and a number of civic social measures. The program, said League Secre— tary Charles H. Bowers, was vital “if we are to stay out of war, if we are to stay at home and solve our many economic problems.” “Eivery time we permit even a slight infringement upon the rights guaranteed in our American Bill of Rights,” the League stated, “we nave been pusned that much closer to suppression of our organizations and toward helping the money in- terests across the seas to save their first mortgage on the lives and wealth of the world.” = 7 Only Shoe Repair Store in Vancouver with a Signed Agreement with the Union NEW METHOD SHOE - - iSchool For Spies Maintained Soviet Journalist Fells Of Finnish People’s Army By NICHOLAT VIRTA. MOSCOW, USSR. — For three days I have been watch- ing the movements of the Red Army units and transports without observing a single seri- ous breakdown or accident. Our car sped alons picturesque spots on the shores of the Gulf of Binland. This was a health resort enee, but the Finnish militarists converted it into a huge military camp. Here the maneuvers of the Finnish Army were held. Here the White Guard Finns rehearsed an ‘attack on the Soviet Union.’ it’s like the Riviera here. Slen- der fir trees cover the hill slopes and the tiny villas painted in gay colors present a fine sight against the background of the bay’s calm waters. We crossed a railroad and found a Soviet armored train standing at the station. WMauling a string of flat cars loaded with huge steel Sirders, it was on its way to Teri- jeoki, where Soviet railwaymen were repairing the blown-up bridge. Again our road took us alongs the seashore until we reached a blue post with a Finnish sign readin= “Terijoki.’ The Terijoki telephone exchange, the electric sub-station, the supply depots and the chief stores were burned down by the fascist Schutz- corps when they retreated, but Some significant buildings remain. In a large courtyard is a modest house which served as a headquar- ters for the political police. it shows obvious signs of panicky re- treat. But the files and archives remain intact, Terijoki occupied a very im- portant place in the Finnish in- telligence service. A school for spies and intelHigence men was located there. It was the center of a spy circle operating throughout the whole of the isthmus of Karelia and supplied the Finnish frontier posts with information and clothes for spies who were to be smuggled into the USSR. During the first day of the war I saw in a store-room of the Fin- mish frontier post several bundles ef clothes ,including Red Army uniforms, peasant clothes, workers’ clothes, dress suits, ladies’ gar- ments.. All these parcels were ad- dressed to Terijoki. Tt required no imagination to see what these clothes were used for. FINNISH CORPS. ~ visited the men and command- ers of the first corps of the Finnish People’s Army. The troops of the corps wear light green greatcoats With a triangle insignia on the col- lar and fur caps with ear-laps. Their commander managed to ex- plain that this is only part of his battalion dispatched by the corps commander to arrange for the bil- leting of troops. ‘We are eager to go into ac- tion,’ one of the men told me. “Then we would show the Man- nerheims how real Finns fight.”’ We spent the night in a small Finnish house allotted to us by the commandant of Terijoki, a ma- jor of the Finnish Army Corps. The major was very busy these days evacuating archives of the Finnish government institutions, searching for hidden arms, inter- viewing the civil population re- maining in Terijoki, explaining to them that no one would molest them or beat them or burn their houses or take away their tiny land allotments or force them to join collective farms. The inhabitants left highly satis- fied after a talk with the major. Lafe is coming back to normal in Terijoki. ing business. The branch offices of the Finnish reactionary paper Kar- @€lia are now taken over by the edi- torial staff of the Finnish people’s Paper, organ of the People’s goyv- ernment of Finland. You still have time te order your SUIT or OVERCOAT for Christmas. 4 @ur low rental location en- ables us to sell for less and give sreater values... Buy from the old established frm known for quality! REGENT TAILORS 324 West Hastings Street SEymour 5614 advertisement is not published or displaye i Government of British Columbia. ee by “miners returned to work last week The stores are resum-— f Ald. S. Smith To Run For Board Of Control TORONTO, Ont.—Ald. Stewart Smith, Ontario leader of the Communist party, has announced his candidacy for board of control in the forthcoming civic elections. If the reactionaries are to be combatted effectively, labor must be represented on the zontrolling body, Ald. Smith said in making the announcement. Nominated as aldermanic candi-@ date for Toronto’s ward four, which last year re-elected Ald. Smith despite a red-baiting cam- Faign unprecedented at that time, is Joseph B. Salsberg, well-known trade union leader and prominent meniber of the Communist party. Salsberg, a member of the city council in 1938, will assist in the fight against the tory elements on the council who have consistently opposed every progressive measure and who recently demanded the resignation of Ald. Smith. Ask Higher Wage For Steel Workers HALIFPASS, NS—Increased wages and improved working conditions for workers in the plant of Do-— minion Steel’s Sydney plant and other steel plants in Canada were discussed at a conference between Labor Minister Norman McClarty and a CIO delegation headed by Silby Barrett, CiQ Canadian re- presentative. The CIO committee asked for a minimum wage of 50c an hour, an 8-hour day, a 48-hour week and