Ed P ator Euler, who observed } letter to the Globe and Mail that ' it required little _ Japan.” OTTAWA, Ont.—With the people drawing the conclusion, in the light of recent deyelopments in Hurope, that the real fifth columnists are to be found in high positions, Senator W. ) D. Euler, former cabinet minister, last week hastened to deny allegations made recently by Judith Robimson, Toronto Globe and Mail columnist. Judith Robinson mentioned ifo names, but her charges =; were specific and pomted. In her column on May 16 she wrote: “There is extant a press photograph of one of Canada’s newest senators standing under a Nazi banner among Nazi salutes at a meeting of Ontario sympathizers of Herr Hitler. It is quite a new photograph, hardly a year old. “If its subject has made public recantation of the public tributes he offered Nazi , ment of Canaciasism and the im- Germany at the Nazi meeting |portance of welding the various where he got his picture taken, | races in Canada into a sound and it’s too bad the papers missed it. | democratic Canadian citizenship. They didn’t miss the story of his |On the platform there were Ger- recent elevation to the Senate of | man emblems, as well as the Am- Canada, It’s too bad, because | erican flag, and over all a large justice is one of the goods Can- | union jack. At the 1935 gathering The ADVOCATE FOR PEACE. PROGRESS AND DEMOCRACY Vol. 6. No. 21. Full No. 282. VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1940 <6 FEDERAL SEVE OVERNMENT D Vote Seen. As Gain For Union Ambassador ada is supposed to be fighting | the music was supplied by the band for.” of the Scots Fusiliers. A deputation A prompt denial came from Sen-| {from the gathering laid a wreath on in his intelligence: to identify himself as the senator to whom Judith Robinson had referred. Demanding an immediate retrac- the Genotaph at the city hall. Not one citizen of this community or elsewhere, so far as I know, criti- cized the action of the mayor or myself in extending the c6ourtesies usually and properly accorded to Opposition Heavy In Ballot Among Trail Smeltermen visitors. “At the 1937 meeting, at the re- quest of the visitors, a photograph of the officials was taken, together With the mayor, an alderman and myself. The banner in the back- fround is a large union jack. “I attended no gathering of the kind after 1937. The statement as to the ‘photograph hardly a year old’ is therefore untrue.” Senator Eulers protest brought the following retraction from Judith Robinson: “Trusting an informant who had often given her information before ‘tion, Senator Euler wrote: “I have never participated in any Nazi gatherings at any time, have never given or received a Nazi salute; have never made a2 speech landing Nazism; have had no photograph taken ‘standing under a Nazi banner ...a new photograph hardly a year old’ “For many years, before and after the first great war, German-Can- adian societies held social gather- ings in Kitchener. To one of these socalled ‘family meetings’ I was in- TRATL, BC—An indication of the srowing opposition to the company -dominated pol- icies of the Workmen’s Coop- erative committee here is seen in the heavy vote cast against the ‘constitution’ drafted by the committee and submitted to a yote of Consolidated Min- ine and Smelting company’s employes. With 1298 voting for the ‘con- stitution”? and 1177 against, the SIR STAFFORD GRIPPS whese appointment as British ambassador to the USSR was of- ficially accepted by the Soviet Vited in 1935 and again in 1937, to- gether with the mayor and the city council, for the purpose of extend- ing greetings to our visitors, as is the general practice on occasions of this kind. We were at peace with and never before wrong informa- tion this reporter did an injustice the other day. She wrote that one of Canada’s new senators had had his picture taken a year ago under committee gained an apparent vic- tory. Examination of the vote, however, discloses that at least 300 eligible employes, having no faith in the committee’s proposals, did government this week It was stated that the British Laborite would have ordinary ambas- sadorial status without extra- ordinary functions. a Nazi flag and among Nazi salutes. Germany and had just made a&]/ the information was wrong. The favorable trade agreement with that country. The speeches were (Continued on Page 2) non-political and stressed the senti- See SENATOR Japanese People Weary Of War As Privation Increases At Home BY OLIVER WILLIAMS TOKYO, Japan—The war having led to economic ex- haustion in Japan, Japanese military circles reckoned on the wealth of the occupied Chinese territories as a way out. Starv- ing peasants in occupied territories who have been stripped of everything were told that peace and plenty would reign from now on. Federation Ordered To Dissolve TOKYO, Japan—The Japanese All these blandishments have failed. The resistance of the Chin- ese people is as resolute as ever. Recently a special correspondent for Asahi investigated conditions in the Yangtze river valley. He found that shipping on this big artery of commerce had dwindled to one- third of its former yolume. “Japan’s economic worries in its ozcupied areas are that if cannot not cast their ballots. Further, many of those who voted for the proposal are now complaining that at the time the ballot was taken they did not understand the issues involved. Be- cause some employes have a poor knowledge of English it was dif- ficult for them to understand the proposed ‘constitution.’ It is not an exaggeration to say that some 200 of those who voted in favor of the measure have since reversed their stand. Properly interpreted, the vote is revealed as a victory for the patient work of Trail and District Smelter- men’s union, which has been able to influence a large number of workers, as yet unorganized, who have become disillusioned with the Workmen’s Cooperative committee’s policies. Certainly the vote has aided in Clarifying issues and has brought prestige to the union. Disruption Hit SEATTLE, Wash. — Red-baiting resolutions introduced in trade unions are employer inspired man- euvers to create disruption, it was declared by the Seattle Industrial Previously a statement issned by Tass, Soviet news agency, had outlined the attitude of the USSR. Said the statement: “In view of a number of incor- rect and contradicting reports that haye appeared in the British press regarding Cripps’ journey to Mos- cow, Tass has been authorized to state the following: “In reply to a proposal of the British government regarding the sending of Cripps to Moscow as a Special extraordinary delegate of the British government, Peoples Gommissar of Foreign Affairs Molo- toff instructed Maisky (Soviet-Am- bassador to Britain) that the goy- ernment of the USSR could not receive either Cripps or any one else in the capacity of special or extraordinary delegate. “Tf the British government real- ly desires to conduct trade negotia- tions and not merely to confine itself to talk about some non-ex- istent turn in relations between Britain and the USSR, it could do so through its ambassador to Mos- cow (Sir William Seeds), or through another person holding the post of ambassador in Moscow if Seeds is going to be replaced by another Union Council last week. person. ’? press reported last week that the fovernment intends to disband those trade unions which so far have escaped the axe of police sup- pression. : “Ti is quite probable that work- ers? union in the country will be Gisbanded by the government in the near future,’ Mikayo reported. The paper said the reason com- pelling the government to use re- pressive measures against the Work- ers’ organizations is the necessity to “drive out Communist ideas and yarious social thoughts from the minds of the people.” Light is thrown on the bagk- ground of this decision by the re- cent announcement by the ministry of public health conditions of the workers is leading to an intensification of the class Struggle, even among unorganized sections of the proletariat in The government is demanding that “worsening |. do anything satisfactory with them in the way of utilizing their im- mensely rich resources: Further- more, the resources are far richer in the areas infested by guerillas than in the effectively occupied districts. Tung oil, tin and raw silk are not within reach of the Japan- ese army. Even goods from the oc- cupied areas are sent to enemy districts,’ he wrote. Conditions in Japan grow from bad to worse. Stoppage of work from lack of electricity and coal has been frequent during the winter months. In several big cities the rice supply was insuf- ficient and cabinet ministers warned at that time against spreading the rumors that rice Tioting had occurred. The government ordered com- pulsory selling of rice by the peas- ants, who are reluctant to part with their produce because the money they receive does not buy the most needed necessities, such as cloth- even mineral Advocate Reporter Barred From Council In an effort to prevent press criticism of their policies Vaneouver Trades and labor council officials on Tuesday barred the Advocate’s representative from his seat at the press table for the first time since the late Colin McDonald, president of the couneil, granted the privilege. Pee ret ane eats R. Thom pson Found Dead be provided with a card was intro- duced and the Advocate’s repre- sentative was barred at the door by Delegate Ed. Smith, Painters’ Death of Robert J. Thompson, aged about 55, whose body was found on the floor of his office at 163 West Hastings street on Tues- union, who, acting as warden, de- day morning by W. Ravenor, with manded a card. When he learned that the Advocate’s reporter had whom he shared the office, is believ- ed due to natural causes. Thomp- been given no special permit he son, a veteran worker in the labor directed him to another room. Here Birt Showler, assisting Mrs. movement, was in good health when Jast seen by Rayenor the previous A. McDonald as statistician, asked if the reporter had received a card and when he replied in the nega- tive, Showler said, “Well, you can’t | that the Japanese Federation of | Labor be disbanded and Federation Chairman Matsuoka has been in- formed by the ministry of the in- terior that the alternative is dis solution by force. Sixty-eight unions which, at the end of 1938, had 41,165 members are affiliated to the Japanese Fed- eration of Labor, which is under social-democratic influence. Matsu- | Ment is striving to suppress. oka himself fayors a policy of col- Jaboration with the employers. But among the members of the trans- port workers, metal workers and Sfamen’s union are many support ers of a policy of struggle and it is their activities that the govern- Assault Charge Hearing Monday Charges of robbery with violence against Harry McQuillan, super- intendent of Pioneer Timber company, arising ont of seizure a brief case from: Earnest Dal- y=, secretary of International Woodworkers’ union, leca] 1-71, last month, will come up for pre- iminary hearing in Vancouver police court June 10, according o Nigel Morgan, the union’s in- ernational board member. clonel Pepler, deputy attorney meral, has announced that his partment will appoint a special Handling the caSe for the de- dant will be Senator J. W. & Farris. McQuillan is at lib- on bonds of $500; dustry. Rice was imported from Korea, Formosa and the Yangsze Valley and the government spent part of its meager hoard of foreign currency to buy rice in Indo-China CONDITIONS WORSEN Adequate rice supplies seemed assured. But not for long. During recent weeks the Japanese press has again become alarmed because Korea and Formosa are not sup- plying the needed quantities and eompulsory selling by farmers is not having expected results. If is explained that the people barred?” the reporter asked. “No, I did not say that, but un- less you were sent a card you can’t get in,’ Showler hastily replied “You can see Bengough—he’s up- stairs—and see what he has to say.” “Am I barred from the council meeting?” the reporter questioned Bengough when he came down from an executive board meeting. “Yes, we decided that,” he stated. Questioned further on what erounds he barred the press, Ben- fough replied, “The press is not barred, but we don’t like your com- ments.” (Continued on Page 3) See JAPAN Indies Report Denied | [OSCO USSR.— Emphatic denial of a Chicago Daily News report from Paris that Soviet representatives had conferred with representatives of Japan, Mongolia and Germany in Peipme on the future of the Dutch Hast Indies was made by Izvestia, Soviet government organ, last week. According to the Chicago Daily News, “French circles’ were said to have been ‘alarmed’ by news of the “conterence. ’ Izyestia commented that ‘‘if the lackeys are spreading rumors that the Soviet Union has become interested in Duteh colonies, it means that the lackeys’ masters have decided to take over the Dutch heritage. “The old thief’s trick of shouting “Stop, thief!’ at the top of his voice in order to distract attention from himself ing, utensils and Z : = talitees scarce because war has |Set in” Rone Bee DOE VBS Sees : enters 5 = : = enter and Hanna’s undertaking the first claim on the chemical in- Does that mean the press is|>orors, 1049 West Georgia street. Arrangements are being made to have the Returned Soldiers’ Club take care of funeral arrangements under the Last Post fund. Deceas- €d was a veteran of the war of 1914-18, having served in the capacity of Dispensary Sergeant in the Canadian Army Medical Gorps. Victoria Local Unions Merge VICTORIA, BC—Merger of two local unions affiliated with Inter- national Woodworkers of America Was effected at a meeting in Inland Boatmen’s union hall here Mon- day. The amalgamation of the former sawmill local 1-122 with local 1-118, Sawmill and Shinete | Weavers was completed following | an address by International Board | Member Nigel Morgan, who stress- ed the need for an ageressive or- ganizavion program, Yom Harrison was elected presi- dent of the strengthened union and George Wilkinson secretary. Plans to invite International Vice-Presi- dent ©. M. Orton to the union’s next meeting to be held at the Temple, 602 Broughton street, June 23, were made. A number of new members joined at conclusion of is being widely employed by capitalist diplomacy and the capitalist press.’” beh ane the meeting, which was well at- tended. jane to buy time on anoth Five Unions Seeking To Re-Affiliate Trades Council Sets Up Committee On Applications Applications for re-atfilation of five unions, suspended from Vaneouver Trades and Labor council’s May 21 meeting for rejection of AML President William Green’s order to purge all Communist trade unionists and active sympathisers from its ranks, were heard by dele- gates to that body Tuesday and referred to the organiza- tional committee for recom- mendation. The unions making application were: Electrical Workers, local 213; Operating Engineers, local 115; Stenographers, Typists and Book- keepers, local 18177; United Gar- ment Workers, local 190; and Bakery and Confertionery Workers, local 468. Retails Clerks union, local 279, informed the counci] that the mat- ter of affiliation would be taken up at the next meeting of the union. To exclude visitors from affiliat- ed unions and press representatives who will not write reports of the council meetings as officials desire, a committee Known as the creden- tials committee, composed of Birt Showler, chairman, E: Potts, Reg. Atkinson, G. Sankster and T. Dun- lop, was appointed by President ©. A. Jamieson, : Four vacancies on the executive, three of them caused through action of International Represent- ative ©. Hughes in unseating 17 unions and the fourth through -resignation of W. D. Wilson, chair- | man of the grievance committee, ee resigued later in disagreement with council officials, were filled. Delegate Ed. Smith, Painters’ union, replaces S. Hughes as ward- en, ©. E. Herrett, Barbers’ union, replaces ©. M. Stewart as organi- zation committee chairman, George Gerrard, Projectionists, takes over the grievance committee chairman- ship from W. D. Wilson and W. G. Cooper, Beverage Dispensers, heads the press committee in place of W. Stewart. Street Railwaymen’s union re- ceived approval of delegates al- leged to be Communists or to have Communist sympathies. The union also endorsed Jamieson’s actions in expelling delegates having al- leged Communist leanings. Delegates W. Page, R. G. Pol- lock, C. E. Herrett, W. G. Cooper, T. Dunlop, Ed. Smith, R. H. Nee- lands, BE. J. Tennant, P. R. Ben- gough, Birt Showler and E, A. Jamieson were named as a com- mittee to plan for the 56th annual Trades and Labor Congress con- vention to open in Vancouver, Sept. 23. Only organizational activity re- ported was that by Delegate Dan. Macpherson who ‘told delegates that an arbitration and concilia- tion board had agreed that. 90 cents an hour should be the prevailing scale for skilled workers at Bur- rard Drydock. Union’s Radio Program Barred Termination of a 12-month con- tract for radio time, which does not expire until the middle of Jan. 1941, is the tenor of a letter receiv- ed by Fred Marchese, manager of Hotel Wiest and sponsor of ‘Green Gold,’ from G. GC. Chandler, man- ager of Station CJOR here. “Green Gold,’ sponsored by Fred Marchese in cooperation’ with In- ternational Woodworkers of Am- erica, has been heard over the same Station for the past 70 weeks every Wednesday evening. ‘Sponsors of the program told the Advocate that the only excuse of- fered for the sudden termination of the contract was that it was due to the serious character of the war Situation as a result of which all programs are being cut down. Meanwhile, the TWA Labor's Rights Safeguarded HAVANA, Cuba—Social security, accident insurance and minimum wages provisions have been written into Cuba’s new constitution by the Constituent Assembly. The chapter on labor, now under discussion. provides a complete code embracing the eight-hour day, protection for women and minors, nationalization of labor, obligatory vacations and the right to organize Reason Youth . Council Raided OTTAWA, Ont. — Among organizations declared illegal under the War Measure act by Justice Minister Ernest La- pointe in the House of Commons Wednesday were: Commun- ist Party of Canada, Young Communist League, Canadian La- bor Defense League, Ukrainian labor Farmer Temple Associa- tion, Finnish Organization of Ganada, Russian Workers and Farmers Club, Croatian Cultural Association, Hungarian Workers Club, Polish People’s Association, Canadian Ukrainian Youth Federation and League for Peace and Democracy. On publication of the order-in-council amending Defense of Canada regulations in the Canada Gazette these organiza- tions will become illegal. Provisions are made under the new regulation that where an accused person has attended meetings of an illegal organiz- ation, publicly spoken in fayor of it, or has distributed its lit- erature, they shall be presumed to be a member of that organ- ization in the absence of evidence to the contrary. All commissioned otticers of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have been given authority as justice of the peace to facilitate issuance of search warrants. Under the new orders a number of fascist organizations were declared illegal. OTTAWA, Ont—An explanation of the raid recently made by RCM Police on the offices of Montreal Youth Council was sought m the House of Commons by Mrs. D. W. Neilson (Unity, North Battleford). Parliament’s only woman member wanted to know on what grounds the raid had been ordered and if papers seized by police would be returned. __ += A reply was promised by Justice Minister Ernest Lapointe. MONTREAL, Que—With | special police attending its Sessions as ‘observers,’ delegates to Montreal Youth Couneil at their meeting last Sunday sent a strong protest to Prime Minister Mackenzie King against the recent raid on the coun- eil’s offices. A resolution adopted also expressed alarm at recent steps taken by-the government which, in the opinion of delegates, “might lead towards conscription,” The meeting, attended by some 300 delegates and obsery- ers, many of them from other cities in eastern Canada. was marked by withdrawal of delegates representing three affil- lated organizations, Young Men’s Christian Association, Young ee Hebrew Association and Young Women’s Hebrew Asso- ciation. At the opening of the meetme, conducted along the lines of a model parliament, the chairman presented the executive committee's recommendation that mo resolutions be presented from the floor of the meeting. When adoption of this recommendation was asked dele- gates from the Young Men’s Christian Association proposed an amendment permitting them to submit a resolution pledg- Ing support to the federal government’s policies. In lengthy discussion the recommendation of the executive committee was upheld by delegates and the amendment de- feated. Wollowine this decision, delegates from the three dis- Senting organizations withdrew from the meeting. Parley On Fish Prices Deadlocked By Canners tempt- | t and strike. of meetings. for gear. Fishermen’s mass meetings also attended by delegates from union locals at Stuart Island, TLasquetti Island, Pender Harbor, Deep Bay, Nanaimo, Blubber Bay, Gabriola and Quadra Island unanimously tejected this offer and decided to remain tied up until a more satis- factory arrangement is made. Attempts to set Japanese and white fishermen against each other by spreading rumors among the two sections that the other group had decided to accept the canners’ offer were spiked when representa- of these groups discussed the sijuation. The canners, at a meeting Mon- day, refused to submit the matter of prices to arbitration or allow the government to intervene in any way. Commercial Fishermen's Weekly published a statement last week that Labor Minister G. S. Pearson, who is also fisheries commissioner, had refused to intervene in effect- ing a settlement was denied by him in a telegram to PCFU Secretary A. V. Hill this week in which he also stated that Fisheries act pro- vides for arbitration, although ar- bitration at this hour would be useless. Negotiations between representatiy and Salmon Canners operating committee bluebaek salmon for the season were dea Best offer of the ¢anners w and 6 cents dressed with no signed agree of service in collecting fish, pric es of fishermen’s unions to agree on prices of dlocked after a series as 514 cents in round ment and no guarantee €S OF groceries or arrangements Sees Threat In Hysteria & WASHINGTON, DC. — Senator Norris last ‘week expressed concern that “growing hysteria about a fifth column” might undermine Civil liberties, involve the United States in war and make possible “a §overnment like Hitler's.” Norris, the only senator now sit- ting who voted against American entry into the iast world war, told the press that he feared a repeti- fion of world war raids when “hun dreds of persons, entirely innocent, were arrested, shackled and hand- cuffed just because their enemies made false charges against them.” Norris said ‘it is history’ that J. Edgar Hoover, head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, assisted Attorney-General Palmer jin direct- ing those raids. The senator is opposing President Roosevelt’s plan to shift the immi- gration service from the labor to the justice department because, he Said, “I am afraid Hooyer may get control.”