(rere ee NeTm Oy epegreoweas 5 An open call to the provincial government to send in mess in British Columbia, in a front Page editorial which Asserts the Financial News: “‘It is the duty of the directors of the British Columbia government to see that cident breaching the peace, but at ali Li : The company, too, should have the co-operation of all other mining men in BC who have the good of s learned they can not run British Columbia into ruin.”’ ; : because, it holds, the miners “‘are guilty of have the co-operation of the mot after some disgraceful in to work through a picketing It is time that irrespon for a reign of terror in the the industry at heart. Hiding its demand line of hoodlums. sible foreign union : Bridge River Valley under the cloak of ‘patriotism’ times so shutting off, illegally, valuable production and purchasing power needed in management, by refusing the striking miners’ ‘purchasing power needed in wartime.’ demand for higher wages to meet incre all processes of the law are com 3 Big Business Organ Calls For Terror Against Strikers police to break the Pioneer mine strike was issued by the should have been headed ‘An Invitation To Terrorism.’ : Pioneer Mine to break this illegal tie-up of the mine. To that end Pioneer should plied with and that adequate protection is siven, Financial News, organ of biz busi- that former employees and new employees may not have to fight their way wartime,’’ tne business organ cleverly twists the issue. For it is the mine ased prices—the central issue of the strike—which is shutting off (Please turn te Page Two) the ADVOCATE |= FOR PEACE, PROGRESS AND DEMOCRACY Anti-Soviet Emtricues —Page Six $ $ Biography é Of Kuusinen @ —Page Six VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1940 S= ® 5 Cents FULL No. 261. | He Told The Truth, But— Finn Whi By PHILIP | Papers Would Not Report Defeat Of te Guards BOLSOVER LONDON, Eng.—(Passed by British Censor)—One corre- Spondent on the Finnish front has been honest and candid. News of this astonishing phenomenon reached London this week. The correspondent is Aksel Kielland, representing the Norwegian paper, Oslo Dagladet, which is violently pro-Mannerheim, pub- lishing mainly anti-Soviet stories. Im an article entitled derestimatine the Russians, Kiel- land writes: “It is characteristic that my telesram reporting the battle at Dake Kaskamo which resulted in a defeat for the Finns, called forth indignation in Oslo indignation @egainst 2 correspondent who re- perited a defeai. it is lWkewise characteristic that the newspapers Seized on a report that the Rus- Sians retreated in the north and that the Russians fell into traps. it seems that the people needed a Christmas present. “Tt is useless denying facts. The lost battle at Kaskamo is @ fact for us whe saw the Russian ad- wance and their incredibly rapid break through.’ Kielland says the Finns were nu- Mmerically superior to the Russian advance troops, but as the main ‘Stop Un-< Russian army advanced from the north and east, the situation changed entirely. The regular Red Army advanced with such rapidity that the Finns scarcely had time to Set fire to huge quantities of ma- terial made ready for destruction weeks 220. “We eye-witmesses of a great part of this catastrophic ad- vance endeavored to give an ac- count of it,” he writes. “That is mecessary even if sad. The enor- meus masses now advancing be- hind hundreds of rolling fortress— es are an irresistable wave which Sweeps everything before itt and even people with no idea of mili- tary technique cannot but rea- lize that it means something (Continued on Page Two) See DEFEAT Millard Remanded TORONTO, Ont.— Postponed for several weeks, hearing of charges 4gainst CIO Organizer Charles Millard opened in Timmins this week only to be again remanded for a week, when alleged new in- formation was received by the court. This “information’ read: “That Charlies Millard did unlaw- fully make statements at a meeting held in the Goldfields theatre in ‘Limmins to the effect that we “should have democracy in Ganada before we go to Europe to fight for democracy, that there was not @ great deal of sense in going to BHurope to fight Hitlerism while here was Hitlerism right here in _Ganade, that men only join the iy, to be sure of eating regularly, words of like intent being in- ‘fended or likely to prejudice the re- “eruitine of His Majesty's forces.” _ Millard, on a $5,000 bail is being defended by the union. | Preparations are under way by the CLDpL for defense of Douglas Stewart, Clarion manager, on eharees that the paper ‘menaced the security of the state’ by print- (Continued on Page Two) See ARRESTS James Blocks Possible Mine Strike Settlement a= TONEER, BC.—Since negotiations for settlement of Pioneer strike on the basis of an eigsht-point proposed plan, acceptable _ to mine directors and miners, Dr. H. T. James, mine manager, the dispute has resolved into a test of endurance, with directors bent on Starving the strikers back to work or out of the Bridge River valley and miners de- - termined to negotiate only on the eight points. were broken off last week by > idle threats have been circulated -that the mine will be dismantled but there is very little likelihood of the company closing out the mine which has netted profits listed among the highest in BGC. But while negotiations are dead- locked with Dr. James as the chief stumbling block to an amicable Settlement, strikers are considering appeals to Nanaimo iuiners to picket Spencer’s store there. Gol. Victor Spencer is a director of Pioneer mine. This angie of strike stratesy was broached to Labor Minister George Pearson by W. S. Atkinson, United Mine Workers’ Tsland representa— tive, and is believed to have spurred Starting of negotiations prior to the holiday season. A second brief on the strike situa_ tion has now been prepared for mailing to all unions in appealing to them to continue support. At a meeting in Victoria, Mon- day, between members of the pro- vineiai cabinet and three mine di- rectors, two members of the com- pany cooperative brousht down by Dr. James were refused admittance to state their side. It was under- Ssteod the directors got little or no encouragement from the sovern-— ‘ment. Internationai Woodworkers in convention last weekend sent a resolution to Attorney-General Gor don Wismer stating they would pro- test any attempt to send additional Police to Premier, which thus far -has s€é€n no violence. ANTI-SOVIET DRIVE PUSHED CiO Union Leader’s Wife Murdered By V igilantes probe into the murder of Mrs. year-old Finnish wife of an trade unionists throughout the west called for swift justice for Slain last Saturday evening while in an adjoining room her 3-year- old child lay sleeping. Returning from a movie show, her mother, Mrs. Nesta Loumma, who in 1919 fled to the United States with her family to escape Baron Mannerheim’s bloody purge, found Mrs. Law’s body. The young wife had been slain as Savagely and sadistically as any Finnish worker in the White ter ror. Her head had been split open with an axe. Her breast had been pierced again and again with some sharp instrument. The murder was a horrible cli- max to the anti-labor vigilantism which has been raging here for some time. A gang of vigilantes which loot- ed the Law home for union rec- ords and membership lists, turnins out drawers of desks and pulling books from the Shelves, crushed out Mrs. Law’s life as ruthlessly as vigilantes smashed up the Fin- nish workers’ hall here Dec. Zy burning its records and furniture in the street. These vigilantes were represent— €d about the country as ‘patriotic Finns’ destroyins a ‘radical’ meet ing place. The hall Was a2 meeting Place of the CIO International Woodworkers of America, on whose executive board the murder- ed woman’s husband serves, NGO PROTECTION. Aberdeen police, although ap-— pealed to repeatedly by Law and warned that antitabor forces had threatened him, his home and his family, fave no more protection from the murder gang than they gave the Finnish work- ers 2 month ago. Grief-stricken Nesta Loumma, 2a fisherman here, declared that re- peated threats had been made against his daughter and son-in- law. “Sometimes they would have many calls in a Single night warn- ing them they had better get out of town if they expected to live very long,” he said Police Chief Robert Schmidt, who ignored requests for protec- tion, refused to entertain any idea that the murder was committed by Vigilantes, despite overwhelminsg evidence pointing in this direction. Instead, he is now endeavorine to pin the murder on Dick Law. Shocked by the brutal erime, the entire labor movement is yoic- ing its indignation at this eynical police attitude. cro ACTS. The answer of the CIO has been Switt. #& committee of five has been formed and charred with the task ef publicizinse the Strugele against the terrorists throughout the Unit- ed States. (Continued on Page Two) See MURDER Labor Movement On Coast Aroused By Brutal Slaying ABERDEEN, Wash. — (Special). — Organ- ized labor this week was demanding a federal Woodworkers union official here, as enraged responsible for the brutal crime. Beautiful, blonde Mrs. Law Ge In Finland Here an officer is seen ex- plaining to Soviet troops Plans for an attack on White Guard troops in a snow- covered forest somewhere in northern Finland. While the Helsinki regime continued to report paper victories this week, Soviet communiques said. there were no major activities. Dick Law, 24- International Pacitic North- the vigilantes — AN EDITORIAL PIONEER MUST BE WON 4 ee red-baiting, labor-hating organ of British Columbia big business, the Financial News, obviously voicing the aims of the Mine Owners’ Association, has now injected its re- actionary influence into the Pioneer Mine dispute in order to prevent a peaceful settlement of the strike. Not only does this voice of reaction attempt to prevent a settlement. It goes further and openly calls for breaking of the strike in its statement: “It is the duty of the directors of the Pioneer gold mine to break this illegal tie-up of the mine” The same editorial demands that the provincial government immediately provide sufficient police to terrorize the strikers into submission and concludes with an appeal for a united front of all BC mine owners in support of the strikebreaking efforts of Dr. James and the Pioneer management. This illuminating editorial explains why the 8-point settle- ment agreed on by the Pioneer directors, the provincial Zovern- ment and the strikers was suddenly rejected. Tt also explains why strikebreakers are now being shippéd into the Bridge River Valley. Both the provincial départment of labor and the miners have been double-crossed by the Pioneer management. A higher authority, that of the BG mining magnates, has decreed that the union must be smashed in orderso preserve the open shop and unbridled exploitation of this basic industry, (Continued on Page Six) | Soviet Troops [Sharp Right Move Marked By Ouster Of Hore-Belisha Statements by Britain’s Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain this ousting of War Minister feverish diplomatic activity in the world’s capitals and intensification of the drive against the labor movement in a indicate that plans for an against the Soviet Union with all Possible speed. week following the Teslie Hore-Belisha, number of countries imperialist ‘erusads’ are being pushed Dismissal of Hore-Belisha from the cabinet is considered to marix the swings of the Chamberlain gov- ernment ever further to the might against the USSR without waitins to change Germany's relation to Moscow. Three points were outs i i Chamberlain’s speech. ees 1. His hint that Britain would lend direct military aid to the Ryti-Mannerheim regime. : 2. Wis prediction that the war in Europe will be intensified 3. His Warning to the trade tends to act to prevent oreanized labor's attempts to equatize wares with risine livine costs. AI SOUGHT. “ While arms and Munitions were sent to the RytiMannerheim re Sime through the Scandinavian countries this week, Sir Risto Ryti Piniand’s banircer premier, com- Plained fhat the national income of those parts of Finland still con-— trolled from Helsinki was ‘sinkin = rapidly’ = Said he, with Every prospect that millions will be forthcomins from his imperialist backers, “The time has come when foreign credit is €s-— sential te us’ another tensifieq in Stockholm, Eritjof Eager, editor of the Communist paper, Ny Dag, has been sentenced toe two months imprisonment for re— publishine an article from Pray da, organ of the Communist party of the Soviet Union. Many high officers of the Swedish aliny are reported to have resigned their commissions in order to join the White Guard armies in Finland. Despite monotonous White Guard wictories. successful flights afainst military objectives. William Tf. White, anti-Soviet CBS correspondent, reported from Belsinid this week that the water— Severe damarce was alse caused by Soviet bomb- ers to the docks at Ganezce, on Which the Helsink; Fesime must rely when Abo harbor freezes over. “=