Page Two THE ADVOCATE

Mayor Telford Calls For Campaign

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January 5, 1940

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little more about it, what a hollow
sounding phrase! After our utter
failure to save China from being
ruthiessly butchered, in a thorough-
ly moderm manner; its women and
children brutally attacked; its
future doomed and mortgaged.
While we thought ourselves snug
in the arms of peace, Spain was
divided against itself, destroyed be-
yond redemption in this generation;
its once glorious civilization and

Council Officials
Get Acclamation

VICTORIA, BC. — Officers
of Victoria Trades and Labor
Council for 1940 were all re-
elected by acclamation at the
regular meeting of that body
Wednesday.

brightly illuminated street. His
eyes met an endless stream of cars,
busses, trolley-busses, and looking
up he saw the familiar electric sign
advertising new vitaminized fruit
juice. The pecple calmiy went their
way. Workers were busy on a con-
struction job across the way and
blue flashes of electric welding il-
luminated tall cranes and workers

council made Communist opposition to the war the basis
of a ‘red-baiting’ speech.

Wot rising prices and their effect on the living standards
of organized workers, not the threat to the trade union
movement contained in powers conferred on the govern-
ment by the War Measures Act, and not the question of or-
ganizing the unorganized formed the theme of Crawtford’s
address to the council.

Instead, Crawford devoted the major part of his speech

inequitable; Utilities
Not Paying Share

Call for vigorous action
against war profiteering in the
interests of consumers and
farmers was made by Mayor
J. Lyle Telford in his address
to the inaugural meeting of
Vancouver's new city council

HE. EF Fox, Street Railwaymen’s
union, was re-elected president; WN.
Robertson, Typographical union,
wice-president; E. Belton, Truck
drivers’ union, secretary-treasurer;
chairmen of committees re-elected
were Norman®Coe, Inland Boat-
men’s union, organization; E. Py-
well, Printing Pressmen, press; G:
Chivers, Carpenters, legislative; R-
trades; and S. Parker, Civic Em-
ployees, sergeant-at-arms.

Worman Goe was delegated to
aitend a Retail Clerks’ organiza-
tional meeting next Monday.

Affiliation of the Painters’ union
with the AFL was expected shori-
iy following en organizational
meetins last month, C Chivers in-
formed the council

Death of Archie Wallis, presi-
dent of Machinists’ union, was an-
nounced with regret

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ance, following circulation of a
petition by Rev. J. E. Healy of
Greston Valley Relief Men’s Asso-
ciation. Frank Puinan, MLA, Nel-
son-Creston, to whom the petitions
were sent, took the matter up with
W. E. Griffiths, provincial relief
administrator.

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cultures in shambles and Franco
fascism firmly installed to keep the
people down and prevent them from
improving their living and social
conditions.

And now the present conflict. it
fives special significance to the
threat to organized labor.

in France we find, in spite of ail
the censorship and strong propa-
ganda machinery in motion, the
daily press admitting that last week
42 trade unions were disbanded and
263 progressive organizations of the
common people were declared il-
legal; Erench labor is forced under
the name of ‘national emergency
and patriotism’ to work twelve
hours a day.

Im India we hear of executions
for advocating dominion status for
India, the same status as Canada
and New Zesland and South Az
rica enjoy.

And here in Canada we find
the press and magazines being
censored, raided, and banned,
which whether we agree with the
particular point of view of these
publications or not, we must ad-
mit is a violation of that age-old
British right of freedom of ex-
pression and freedom of speech,
the cormerstones of democracy.
Raiding of workers’ houses is pro-

ceeding at an ever increasing rate
in the east, arrests are being made
of prominent and responsible citi-
zens such as Charles H. Millard,
secretary of the Canadian Commit-
tee for Industrial Organization.

The cost of living has increased
approximately 17 percent without a
corresponding increase in wages,
war profiteering is proceeding un-
abated, as are also speculation and
monopoly; and as if to add insult
to injury, ‘nuisance’ taxes or in-
direct taxes are being levied on the
necessities of life instead of rigor-
ous surtaxes upon excess profits
and high incomes.

Yes, fellow delegates, the big-
gest war we have on our hands
today is that battle to prevent
Ganada’s fifty big shots from de-
stroying democracy right here at
home. For if democracy doesn’t
mean freedom of speech, freedom
of press, freedom of the radio,
freedom of assembly, and a just
share of the national income, it
doesn’t mean very much.

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Canadian Labor Defense League
will hold its business meeting in
O’Brien hall on Tuesday, Jan. 9
at 8 pm. Members are urged to
attend.

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to the Communists.

plained.

be plenty of work soon.”

“T fali to see where the Communist party has offered
its cooperation to the government in the war,” he com-

The federal government, Crawford told delegates, had
pledged that workers’ living standards and conditions would
not be lowered during wartime.

While in the East many men were again unemployed,
he said, “we are assured by federal ministers that there will

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Jamieson Lauds Dailies,
But Not Advocate

Vancouver’s daily press, which, like the capitalist press
everywhere, is noted for the fairness with which it writes up
labor news and gives it prominence, came in for a word of
commendation from President A. E. Jamieson at Vancouver
Trades and Labor council Tuesday.

The press, he said, had generally
been very fair in its*reports of the®
council’s meetings.

The Advyocate’s reporter, how-
ever, Jamieson asserted, did not
Zive a factual account of the pro-
ceedines of the last council meet-
ing, but put words into the mouth
of a delegate. Said Jamieson:

“The delegate did not make the
remark attributed to him (by the
paper) to the effect that the coun-
cil would curse my war policy after
six months. He may have done so
outside the hall, as it is his right
to do, but he certainiy made no
such statement in the meeting. We
do not object to editorial criticism,
but we do expect factual reporis
of our meetings.

“Tf this sort of thing happens
again, I shall take it on my own
responsibility to tell him he is not
welcome here.”

Since it has never been the Ad-
vocate’s policy to falsify or dis-
tort reports, the Advocate this
week interviewed Charles Stewart,
organization ‘committee chairman
of the council, to whom it had at-
tributed the remark to which Pre-
sident Jamieson took exception.

-The statement in question read:

“C. M. Stewart said he opposed
the Trades and Labor Congress
resolution which tied the trade
union movement to the war policy
of Canada and Great Britain and
predicted that in six months those
now supporting Jamieson and Ben-
gough would curse them for their
stand towards war.”

STEWART’S STATEMENT.

Stewart told the Advocate that
he did make the statement attri-
buted to him by the Advocate, “and
while I do not remember the exact
words I used, whatever difference
there was, if any, between the
words I used and my statement as
reported did not justify Jamieson’s
remarks.

“The resolution which caused
the controversy was democratically
passed by the membership of Divi-
sion 101, Street Railwaymen’s
union, and the delegates speaking
in support of the resolution were
carrying out the instructions of the
membership,” he said.

“In my opinion,’ Stewart contin-
ued, “those participating in the
‘red-baitinge’” campaign are doing
their best to assist those who are
using this war to destroy the lib-
erties of the Canadian people. The
same policy is being pursued by
some labor officials to try by inti-
midation to kill all progressive op-
position.

“The progressive trade unionists
must at this time be bolder than
ever. We must not allow our trade
unions to be dominated by reac-

tionaries. We must put up an in-
tensified fight now for higher
wages to meet the increased cost

of living.

“We must fight harder than ever
for the maintenance and extension
of our civil liberties: The floor
of our trades councils is the place

where organized labor must give
fullest exposure to restrictions of
our liberties and to the profiteers
who are waxing fat on the misery
of the people.

“The ‘red baiters’ want to de-
stroy the Communists, but they
have set themselves an impossible
task. The CGommunists in the
trade unions will continue in the
future as in the past to build and
strenethen the trade unions. They
will refuse to be yesmen for any
dictatorial officiais.”

No Funds
For Work

Lack of funds prevents the BC
provincial government from em-
barking on a works program to
give employment to its citizens,
delegates to Vancouver ‘Trades
and Labor council were informed
Tuesday in a letter from Labor
Minister G. S. Pearson.

The letter was in reply to a Re-
lief Project Workers’ union reso
lution seeking an increase in food
allowances pending a start on a
proposed works scheme endorsed
by delegates at a meeting of the
council last month.

While the minister stated that
consideration had been given to
the works plan and increased re-

lief allowances by the government,
lack of funds prevents either of
them going into effect.

Officials of the Relief Project
Workers’ union withheld comment
when asked by the Advocate for
a statement, stating that the issue
would be discussed at a meeting
this week.

Contrasts Finn,

China Policies

SEATTLE, Wash. — ‘Peace with
the nations of the world and war
against poverty in America’ was
advanced by Howard Costigan as
the slogan of Washington Com-
monwealth Federation as Hing
County council of the WCF met in
convention here last week.

The WCE executive secretary
contrasted the current wave of
publicity for ‘poor lite Finland’
with US aid in Japan’s invasion of
China.

“Hoover couldn’t see suffering
ijn America from the White House,”
Costigan declared. “He is suddenly
detecting it in Finland.”

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in felt boots and fur caps dexter-
ously unloading huge motor trucks.
My friend opened the window
and together with a gust of winter
air there came the many voiced
hum of the great city. Shrill bells
of street cars, auto-horns, dance
music from a nearby cafe and the
laughter of a passing group of
young men and women in skiing
costumes were all blended into one
symphony. A large machine, with
a@ snow-rake like an elephant’s
trunk, cleaned the road of heavy
snowfall, Nearby stood militiamen
seriously lecturing a pedestrian whs
had apparently broken some traf

fic rule. It was a typical Moscow
winter evening.

SHIP STILL AFLOAT.

Bent on precuring further in-
formation, our friend picked up
the evening papers. ‘New Brilliant
Victories of Communists and Non-
Party Bloc’ ran the headline, with a
photograph underneath showing a
well-built naval commander and
several seamen with gasmasks slung
ever their shoulders, depositing
their ballot papers during the elec-
tions on Dec. 24. The picture was
taken on the battleship ‘October
Revolution,’ which, according to ths
reports of certain resourceful for-
eign newspapers, should have been
resting at the bottom of the Baltic
Sea. Then came a long list of fac-
tories and industries, which marked
election day by fulfilling and over-
fulfilling their production sched-
ules.

The Muscovite next picked up the
telephone and called the editorial
office of the newspaper ‘Red Fleet.’
His animated question about what
was happening at Kronstadt
brought the calm, polite reply tbat
the Stakhanovite Bushe, the House—
wife Feskina and the commander
of the battleship ‘Marat,’ Captain
Belousoyv, were among the newly
elected members to the Kronstadt
Soviet: that a new cinema with a
seating capacity of 200 opened on
election day and was named in
honor of Gorky.

LITTLE HAPPENING.

He also learned that a new block
of 103 apartments opened for oc-
cupancy on election day. Outside
of that, the editors had little else
to report on the happenings in
Kronstadt.
The Muscovite hung up the re-
ceiver and returned to the radio.
Again the monotonous voice of the
announcer greeted him, this time
reading from the Oslo paper, ‘Dag-
bladet,’ which usually resorts to all

sorts of fabrications about the
USSR.
On this occasion, however, the

paper told its readers that it was
high time to discontinue spreading
stupid and unscrupulous fabrica-
tions about the Soviet Union and
Red Army. The Red Army, it said,
is an invincible force and only the
blind and deaf can believe the re-
ports broadcast by certain radio
stations that the Finns are alleg-
edly already on Soviet territory.

Dagbladet’ advised its readers to
consult the map and see for them —
selves that Finns could appear on
Soviet territory only if they fell
from the skies. And our Muscovite
having seen for himself what mon-
strosities of lying Paris and other
mouthpieces of anti-Soviet fabrica-
tions ate capable of, recalled the
apt proverb, “Follow up the liar
and you will discover the source of
lies.”

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‘farmers feel they are under-
paid. @Qur housewives are sure
they are overcharged. Both are
right,” Mayor Telford declared. “A
wasteful distributive system, to-
gether with the assistance of Zov—
ernmental agencies striving to
hold up prices artificially, has
been and is creating a consumers
resistance that is working havoc
with both parties.

“Consumers in Vancouver are
not averse to farmers getting. a
geod price for their products- in
fact, they are anxious that they
should. They do refuse, however,
to be made the victims of mal-
distribution and of monopolistic
and artificially controlled prices. _
“They are anxious to work with
our farmers to the end that the
cost of all forms of waste and
unjust exploitation be removed.
In other words, they are sincerely
anxious that more of the consum—
er’s dollar go into the pockets of
the producers. As elected repre-
sentatives, we should co-operate
with any body of citizens working
to that end.”

Stressing the need fer a more
equitable system of business lic-
ensing to remoye the taxation bur-
den from small business and place
it on the big interests better able
to pay, Mayor Telford said:

“The present license fees levied
against our breweries, beer par-
lors and other major interests en-
joyine special privileges when com-
pared with those levied against
the average small, legitimate busi-
ness, constitute an outstanding ex-
ample of the inequity of the pres-
ent licensing system.”

The mayor also urged “that
more strenuous efforts be made to
obtain a greater contribution to
our municipal treasury from our
public utilities. LI do not feel that
they are bearing their just share
of the taxation burden of this city

in comparison with the special
and protected privileges which
they enjoy.”

Other measures advocated by

Mayor Telford included establish-
ment of art, cultural and recrea-
tional community centers for the
city youth and an elective police
commission,

Organization of the people for
destructive ends in wartime as
compared to organization of the
people for constructive purposes in
peacetime were contrasted by the
mayor in the following words:

“Society today is in a state of
flux. It is sorely in need of sane
and constructive, but daring, lead-
ership. We must not be afraid of,
nor adverse to, attempting some
thing new.

“In carrying on a war against
other peoples and nations we strive
to obtain and utilize to their full-
est extent all the most moder
methods and machinery of destruc-
tion that science and inyentive
genius can devise.

dency is, however, to revert to the
most primitive and medieval type
of social, political and economic
machinery available, and to ridi-
cule any and every suggestion
made to venture along new and
untried lines.

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