| April 12, 1940 THE ADVOCATE Page Five | 4 F True to type, MacInnis blames ) the people who, he says, “in times fof crises, look to leaders ... 9 ;sttong man or a strong party to . ‘protect them from the threaten- ‘ed danger.” But why didn’t they turn to the CCE for protection? What is the greatest danger j facing the Canadian people? it jis the war which the leadership y of the CCF supports. And in that Support lies the explanation of y the failure of the CCF, a4 failure despite its increase of represent- jation from seven members to /eight, for that increase was due % to the distribution of votes, the total vote being less than in the 1935 elections. Even MacInnis, running in the best constituency in all Canada, received less votes than he did in 1935, although there were more ballots cast. While his vote fell, that of both the Liberal and Conservative candidates increas- ed. In Vancouver Burrard and Vancouver Genter, where Web- f ster and Lefeaux came within a ® tew votes of winning in 1935, the Liberal candidates won by ap- proximately 2000 majority each. And that despite the Bren fun ‘tarnish that McGeer and Mac- kenzie could not polish off with smooth explanations. eS 4 eee Plain fact is that the CGR did not offer the electors an alternative to the war policy of the old-line parties, for by de- cision of its National Council government on Dec. 30, 1939. After Wang accepted these Japanese terms, Tokio extended a $40,000,000 gift to him. = Supplement TZ to the first sec- tion of the agreement declares “the essential conditions for the establishment of new Chinese- Japanese relations” are: i—The recognition of Manchu- kuo by China, that is, the dis- memberment of the four Chinese northeastern provinces from ' China; - 2-—Renunctiation by China of her independence in questions of foreign policy; 3.—Renunciation by China of her independence in questons of domestic policy. The fifth point of the supple- Ment reads: | “Japan will send her advisers - to the new Central government of China with the object of as- sisting in various undertakings in the recognization of the coun- “In addition to this, Japan wil also send her advisers to various organs in the zones of close Chin- ese-Japanese collaboration.” The second section of the agreement speaks of including China in ‘defense’ against com- munism. What is meant by ‘de- fense’ is seen from the following points in this section. Point two Treads: 4 A® WAS to be expected, The Feder | _~ fall in its party’s support in the rece es Mannerheim’s brand of socialism, / responsible for the sorry showing of cos TEXT of the secret agreement which China, stood revealed last week by the C The agreement, abandoning China’s indep . By MALCOLM BRUCE his party. (with the exception of Woods- worth) the CCF tore up its Re- gina Manifesto declaration of op- position to imperialist war, and jumped into the imperialist war camp. Waturally, then, to the confused electors, insofar as the war was concerned, there was nothing to differentiate between the three War parties except on the ques- tion of which party could prose- cute the war best. And they chose King and the Liberal party. In order to cover up their sup- Port for the imperialist war, the CCE talked loudly of defending civil liberties, workers’ rights and war on poverty—all a swindle in view of its support of continuing a@ war situation in which it is infinitely more difficult to carry out such a program, And now that the CCF in BC has elected only one candidate, whereas in 1935 it elected three, and Came very close to electins three other candidates, one would think that MacInnis would have had his eyes opened. But no, his great regret is that the CCF candidates did not more strongly come out for the war. He writes: “The CCF in BC allowed itself to be put on the defensive as regards its war policy. The statement of the National Council was never put before the people as it should have been—as a better war pol- icy than that proposed by the government.” “Japan and China will con- Sider joint defense against com- munism as their common aim. Japan will station the necessary number of troops in North China and Mongolia.” Point four of the same section reads: “The troops which are at pres- ent stationed in North China and in the zone down the Yangtze Tiver will remain in these dis- tricts until full peace and order are restored.” ie IS further pointed out that 4 “political committee in the af- fairs of North GChina’ will be formed, which will deal with all local and other questions relating to Japan and Manchukuo. The fifth point allows Japan to have warships on the Yangtze river and in the district of the islands in the south of China. In the sixth point it is pointed out that “Japan reserves for her- self the right to control the ac- tivity of the railways, airports, the post, the main ports and the water communications in the zones where Japanese troops are stationed.” And finally this section gives Japan the right to send advisers THE CIO AIDS : AMERICA’S JOADS By ROBERT GOMEZ McALLEN, TEX. HE South Texas Joad families who are brown-skinned and speak Spanish today mourn their dead. In the dark, leaky huts where half a million Mexican agricultural workers—men, women and children—exist almost without food, there is grief for the 23 fruit-pickers Killed recently when their decrepit old truck was struck near here by a speeding Missouri-Pacifie passenger train. . “They were our friends al- though we never met them as men meet men,” said my friend, Pablo Cervantes, who wears the button of the CIO United Can- nery, Agricultural, Packing and Alied Workers of America ‘We wander around like them Pickng fruit in the spring, veg¢- tables in the summer, and cotton in the fall. We starve like they do in the winter. And we are probably as mad as they were because we have no homes but Shacks and no jobs that are steady. When the 23 were killed six “miles from this little town in the rich Lower Rio Grande Valley, their kinsmen by race and by poverty rushed to the railroad tracks and began clearing away the remains of the dead. Women gathered in their bare kitchens and said, “It might have been my husband Miguel, or my Son, Ramon.’ And faces were dark with hatred last night when the Mexicans of McAllen gath- ered in their yards to discuss the crossing wreck—“the worst of its kind in Texas history,” according to State Police Director Homer Garrison. 3 NCE the Mexican farmers owned this Lower Rio Grande Valley with its orange groves and its fields so fertile that a man needs merely to punch a hole in the ground to grow anything. Then, a man did not have to wander the roads with his family, begging a day’s work to buy a bag of mear and a sack of beans. There were food and strong, homemade wine for all] while the warm, friendly climate of the Valley produced a warm, friendly people. The people of the Valley were especially friendly to escaping slaves before the Civil War. Black-skinned runaways from the plantations in other parts of the states were fed and sheltered by: the brown-skinned farmers until they could cross the Rio Grande Valley into the free republic of Mexico. “Tt is not right that one man should be owned by another man,’ reasoned the farmers whose own