Page Two THE ADVOCATE Mayor Telford Calls For Campaign j January 5, 1940 Profiteers \City Must Tax Big — e~ingentemmapanoninad Laiy stro ryi Zvi 0e8 Cl dy apa ialscatilaiie tse oeesied wari a Against l eenuneea Muscovites instinctively feeling nis pulse. Noth- | Centinued Loggers old bundle, sold by the same high Communists Attacked, Labor Problems Skipped Unable to find any genuine ground on which to attack Council Officers Hi yr FI Drs OS See a. the work of Communists in the trade union movement, ing wrong there — his pulse beat 3 < ecte SS ere counsey te = oe Arthur Crawford, Canadian representative of the Sheet evenly. usine SS ‘save the world oe Pe aoe = Metal Workers’ union and former president of Vancouver Hie dashed to the window and P & Li = Victoria Trades Actually though, as one thinks a Trades and Labor council, at this week’s meeting of the glanced to the snow-covered. resen icensing i 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 Relief Workers = Win Allowance GAMP LISTER, BC Relief workers here gained two days’ wages last week, amounting to $6.40, as an extra clothing allow- 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. ~ Public Meeting ORANGE HALL Gore at Hastings SUNDAY, JAN. 7th 8 PIL “Prospect for 1940’’ *& — Speaker — MALCOLM BRUCE Ghairman - - WW. 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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. Defense League Branch To Mcet Vancouver Genter branch of the 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. READ THE WEERBLY TIMBER WORKER’ 4126 Arcade Bldg. Seattle, Wash. Official LW.A. Paper GARFIELD A. KING BAREISTER, ETC. 558 Granville Street SEymour 1324 «icouver, B.C. 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 PRODUCTS | Rupert, New Westminster, Penticton Co. Ltd. : Canada Report Disputed 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.” Offers Asylum To Spanish Refugees NEW YORK, N¥. ean Confederation of Labor, in French concentration camps. = Salvador Ocampo, general secretary of Chil- an- nounced this week through the Spanish Refugee Relief Campaign here that he believes Chile can ab- sorb 10,000 Spanish refugees now 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.” Make It Home! HOTEL EAST 445 Gore Ave. SBEy. 0308 Vancouver, B.C. MT. PLEASANT BILLIARD HALL Complete Laundry Service... Phones F Air. i228 } and BARBER SHOP Everything in Smokers’ Supplies Cigars — Cigarettes — Pipes Lighters — Etc. Wednesday. ‘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. = ee “WASTE HERITAGE” $29 Pages — $2.50 and i2c Postage The written history of Canada is incomplete unless it records the heroic struggles of the unemployed youth of British Columbia against the inhuman starvation policy of the financial oligarchy. . . . 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