/ CIO Head | “In 1934 H, G. Wells decided to in- _ argues with the political leader of > may be written in the future. | dune 14, 1940 THE ADVOCATE : Page Three Condemns Hysteria Says Legislation Would Be Used Against Labor WASHINGTON, DC (UNS) —In a report of the organiza- tions’ legislative committee, the CIO executive board in ses- sion here last week, heard John Li. Lewis declare that measures which would lead to repression of Jabor have been proposed under cover of the eurrent campaign of hysteria. Lewis declared that legislation designed to bar all communists and nazis and limit employment of aliens to 10 percent of the plant’s personnel “would in reality be used against labor.” The LaFollette Op- pressive Labor Practises acti, per- verted into an anti-labor weapon by amendments from a war-bound Congress and administration, was the legislation particularly referred to by Lewis. The report of the legislative com- mittee declared: “Under the getise of discharging alleged communists, employers would be permitted to evade practically all of the pro- visions of the National Labor Rela- tions acti in their attempt to destroy union organization.” Urge Calling Of Convention SEATTLE, Wash.—Cio President John L. Lewis was last week re- quested by International Wood- workers union to summon a con- yention, or take other advisable steps, to “give effective expression to the overwhelming desire for peace by the American people.” In- ternational Vice-President O. M. @rton dispatched the message on behalf of the TWA executive board. Complete text of Orton's mes- Sage to Lewis read: : “In behalf of our international executive board, I respectfully urge that the executive board of the CLO now in session give fayorable con- Sideration to the calling of a con- vention sponsored by the CIO that will lead the way for American people to consolidate the forces for peace and against war, or any other means deemed adyisable that will give effective expression to the overwhelming desire for peace of the American people. The member- ship of the International Wood- workers of America is unalterably opposed to American participation or involvement in the present war. Members have uneaguivecably pledg- ed themselves to the CIO program for peace and security of the Amer- ican people.” ‘LIVING SPACE & POPULA- TION’ This informative pamphlet is by -R. R. Euczynski of the London School of conomics, and well mown as an authority on questions Of population. At this time, with the menace of famine facing Eur- ope, the question of food production and population density assumes a potent significance. 32 pages - Postpaid lic Additional information on thesame subject is contained in— ‘AN ATLAS OF THE WAR’ by J. N. L. Baker Gontains 16 maps with data of the self - sufficiency of the leading eountries of Europe and the Amer- icas. 32 pages ‘THE POLITICAL DICTION- ARY’ compiled by Walter Theimer * (revised April, 1940) This yaluable reference augments the information contained in the aforesaid pamphlets. It contains data respecting thousands of places and persons of political significance. Tt starts with Aaland Islands and ends with ex-Kings Zog. This polit- ical dictionary makes more evident the deep contradictions of economic interests which have produced a yworid of chaos, These contradictions are made evident by the explana- tions of the foreign policies of the respective countries. — Postpaid 23¢ Postpaid lic ‘H. G. WELLS versus JOSEPH STALIN’ tervyiew President F. D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin, Following a visit to Washington he journeyed to Moscow. In this interview Mr. Wells the Soviet State the contention that Mr. Roosevelt will lead hum- anity to socialism. In the light of Mr. Roosevelt's later policy this in- ess pate BANNERS and slogans were carried high in Havana as Cubans marched in the largest May Day demonstration ever held on the island. 768,500 | On Relief OTTAWA, Ont—There were 768,- 500 persons on relief in Ganada in March this year, according to a re- port released here by Labor Min- ister Norman A. Mclarty. While this figure represents a reduction of 25 percent. from the total of those on relief in March, 1938, it gives no indication of how many of these removed from relief rolls, particularly in ‘the citie§ have been absorbed into industry. ' Figures on employment compiled by the Dominion bureau of Stat- istics show that the index as at April 1 this year stood at 111.9 as compared to 1049 on April 1 last year. But the index figure of 111.9 for April 1 is a reduction of 1.6 from the March 1 figure of 113.5. There were 172,000 unemployed but fully employable persons on relief in March this year and the total of persons in all categories in- cluding dependents, receiving ur- ban relief was set at 646,000, a de- crease of 83 percent from March, 1939. Receiving agricultural relief were 122500 persons, including depend- ents, an increase of 9.3 percent over February this year, but a drop of 62 percent from March, 1939. Sask_ atchewan accounted for 65 percent of this total. Council Seeks Language Ban NANAIMO, BC—In a fresolution characterized by Ald. William Grieves as ‘silly and childish’ Nan- aimo city council this week urged immediate investigation of the number of enemy aliens working in mines and the number of persons on relief who might be considered to have been ‘displaced’ by enemy aliens. The resolution urged further that the authorities take prompt steps to make it unlawful for ary lang- uage other than English and French to be spoken by workers in industry. JUNE. 16 FATHER’S DAY Sams Shirt Shop 62 W. Hastings St. ANTON-KNOWS Reliable Scalp Preparation. Baldness, itch, dandruff, discoloration, dry and erey hair is caused by hair starv- ation. Anton-Knows Prepara- tion prevents starvation and re- vives hair or money refunded. Sold only at Orpheum Barber Shop Teck-Hughe Paid Are Ad KIRKLAND LAKE, Ont. system if gold miners who, he workine conditions. The miners are contending that Tech-Hughes, which has paid $35,- 000,000 dividends since its incep- tion and earns more than $2,000,000 yearly, should increase their wages by 15 cents an hour to compensate for rising living costs. A mass of evidence was offered by Union Organizer Tommy Church to show that living costs were 12% percent higher in northern On- tario and that cost of foodstufis alone had soared 1214 percent since the war. Clothing costs had jumped 20 to 35 percent and merchants were forecasting a further rise, Church Stated. : To support its claim that the company could imcrease wages, the union brief pointed out that the mine earned $4,653 per em- ploye last year. Nearly 85 per- cent of the mine workers receive $4.50 to $5.50 daily, Church said pointing out that Toronto Wel- fare council had set $8 as the minimum weekly outlay for food for a family of five and that the Canadian Medical Association had recently increased this to $9 for “the most economical war- time menu.” City figures te prove that therise in the cost of living was more rapid in the north, the union offered evi- dence that potatoes had jumped from $1.45 to $1.99 a bag, coffee from 45 to 55 cents a pound, tea from 70 to 80 cents and Hour from $3 to $3.69. The fact was also Stressed that miners require more food than the average city worker because of the nature of their work. SCOFFS AT CLAIV. J. i, Cohen, KC, union repre- sentative on the board, termed as ‘poppycock’ the company’s claim that the average gold miner’s pay was higher than the average earn- ings of workers in the automotive, rubber and steel industries. Proof of the union’s contention ESS DENTIST DR. W. J. 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IDEAL HEALING SALVE S alve Order 60c s Miners Dispute Claim Wages equate (CUN) —Canadians would be woudering if there were something wrong with the entire wage said, were ‘‘the best paid m the Dominion,’’ received a wage increase, Justice Martin, concilia- tion board chairman, observed here recently. investigating claims of Tech-Hughes miners, members of Mine, Mall and Smelter Workers’ union, for improved wages and The board is that housing costs were high was offered in a relief official’s state- ment of the difficulty in finding homes renting for less than $30 to $35 monthly. An increase in pay was also jus- tified because of the occupational dangers and hardships of mining, the union brief asserted, pointing to the fact that of those killed in industry last year one in ten were miners. More than half the mining fatalities occurred in Ontario. An increase should be granted because of “the clear inadequacy of the-present wage to cover minimum living essentials; the growing cost of living and the strenuous, diffi- cut and hazardous nature of the work,” the brief said. “Inadequacy of wage earnings reflects itself in debt; in denial of essentials which affect lifeand health; in a lower Standard of spending or citizen- ship; factor in which the commun- ity generally has an important and vital interest. The response of the community to the issue of holidays with pay reflects the approval and support of the public for more ade- quate treatment of the miners.” Dispute Goes To Conciliation NEW WESTMINSTER, BC. — Failure to reach an amicable set- tlement on wage increases for em- ployees of Royal City laundry here has necessitated arbitration of the dispute. Laundry Workers Interna_ tional union, local 223, has named Sam Hughes, business agent of Butcher Workers and Meat Cutters union, as its representative on the board. The union seeks 10 cents an hour increase for employes in the laundry and a guaranteed weekly wage of $25 plus five percent. on sales for drivers. Confident Of China’s Victory HONGKONG—Sung Ching-ling, widow of Sun Yat_sen, giving her impressions of her recent yisit to Chungking to Ta Kung-Pao, Chi- nese newspaper here, declared that the Chinese newspaper here, de- clared that the Chinese people “are firmly confident of their final vic- tory over the enemy.” Despite the prolonged war, she said, China had achieyed consider- able progress in reconstruction of industry and agriculture and the material resources of the country were being utilized to continue the war of liberation. “During the years of the war the central authortiies have introduced many political reforms,” she said. “The ideal of national solidarity penetrates the broad masses of the population who don’t believe the rumors circulated by the Japanese and their puppet authorities.” Will Run Again HELENA, Mont.—Jeanette Ran- kin, first woman ever elected to the US Congress who in i917 voted against American participation in the first world war, has filed for the Republican nomination from the First Montana district with her slogan: “Prepare to the limit for defense; keep our men out of Europe.” Your Nearest Cab T0445 sence Service ‘Work Like Hell’ Bevin’s Message To British Workers LONDON, England (By Mail )—Within the past few days two men in Britain, superficially representing two different classes. have said the same thing in different ways. One was Ernest Bevin, secretary of the Transport Workers union and now minister of labor in the Churchill government, ‘Work like hell’ was his terse message to British workers. The other was David Lloyd George, who as prime minister during the last world war recog- nizes the key position and strategic power of labor in this war. Lloyd George, emphasizing the fact that the Churchill government now possesses powers of coercion equal to those wielded by the Hitler reg- ime, asked: “Tf German workers of all crafts and classes can, by toiling night and day at the full stretch of their powers, achieve as much in five months in the way of output as they had turned out during the previous seven years, why cannot British and French workmen emu- late their example?” The question asked by Lloyd George has been answered. In Ger_ many the workers have been work- ing a 60-hour week and longer since the Nazis seized power. In France, under the powers first tak- en by the Daladier government, a 72-hour week has been worked in the factories for the past few months. And now, in Britain, work- ers in the munitions factories are on an 84-hour week, although Britain still has hundreds of thousands unemployed. : While Labor Minister Bevin is advocating the relaxation of trade union regulations, the position of Britain’s organized workers has been advanced by William Pearson, executive member of the Scottish Mine Workers union. “The new regulations mean 2 direct attack on the trade unions and the speedup of industry. When the miners are promised that con- ditions will be restored after the war, they are dubious.” OTHER STATEMENTS What Bevin has expressed in three words, “Work like hell,” public men have been saying in more explicit statements. “Get on with production. Have no holidays. Don’t stop for a sin- gle moment,’ was the way J. GC. Little, former president of the Amalgamated Engineering union and now director of labor supply, put in at a recent conference of the union. It was this statement that drew from a delegate the charge, “We have drifted into a totalitar- ‘ Sir Kingsley Wood, chancellor of the exchequor, put it in another now familiar way. “We must be prepared for fyr- ther sacrifices. The question arises whether here and now further tax ation should be imposed.” , His statement was underlined hy the Financial News, which wrote that the government must know “what is the lowest civilian stand- ard of life which will adequately maintain morale and physique in order that all the rest can be thrown into the task of beating the enemy.” When the Churchill government passed its Emergency Powers Act the newspapers Carried headlines, ‘The government controls eyery- thing and everybody,’ without ref- erence, of course, to the interesting point of who controls the govern- ment. NEW PRESS LAW Of great importance in view of Britain’s vaunted freedom of the press are the new far-reaching powers granted the home secretary, Sir John Anderson, who can now suppress any paper opposing the war. Under these new powers the home secretary can make an order specifying a particular paper and applying that order to any paper which may be considered a contin_ uation of the banned paper. If he is Satisfied that a printing press has been used in production of a paper which has published anti- war material or in printing a ban- ned paper, he can close down the press or dispose of it at his own discretion. Further, it is now for- bidden to publish any new paper. It is worthy of note that around the time these new regulations were made public Alfred Duff Cooper, minister of information, was telling a luncheon gathering of the Foreign Press Association that the freedom of the press is a sham in those countries which haye come under Nazi rule. To tell the truth in those coun- tries has become a crime, he stated. To hold an independent view has become a crime. There is no longer a free press, but only an official communique and an echo of the jan state.” master’s voice. The Week Banned To Overseas Readers NEW YORK, NY—Announcement that publication of The Week, widely read newsletter issued simultaneously in London and New York, has been temporarily suspended was made here Jast weelx. _ The announcement followed receipt of a cable from Editor Claud Cockburn im London, stating: coals By an order issued under the Emergency Powers act it is now prohibited to send The Week abroad except by mail. S83) 3 cq opinion, since the censor Hitherto, The Week has been compiled in London, eabled to New York for simultaneous publication with the London edition. The New York office stated that publica- tion would be resumed when Cockburn ‘‘comes to an un- derstanding with the British if it could establish direct contact with foreign correspond- ents of The Week, whose estimates of international develop- ments have often been borne Majority of The Week’s ported to be im South Africa, Australia and the United States. In order to mail The Week a permit must be obtained. No such permit will be granted. In view of the fact that every issue of The Week cabled to America passed the censor, I am still seeking clari- fication of what appears to be direct censorship of deals with facts.’’ censorship,’’ or, failine that, out by developments. overseas subseribers are re- i | Mine Union Head Assails Profiteers As Real F ifth Column Cuban People Demonstrate. Warns Of Anti-Labor Plotting Robinson Says Gil Rights Of Peaple At Stake CHICAGO, Ill—Beliet that the civil rights of the Ameri- can people are at stake today and that the war situation in Hurope will give ‘‘added zest to those reactionaries in this country in trying to deprive us of our civil rights and our liberties,’ WaS expressed by President Reid Robinson of Mine, Mill and Smelter Work- ers’ union, Im an article ap- pearing in the current issue of the CLO News. The article continued: «We are going to hear much in the coming months, yes, in the coming years, of a fifth column. It is a new term that is being used extensively in Europe. With it go serious implications. *Just the other day in the city of Washington, that famous or should we say, infamous Congress- man Dies of Texas, stood in the House of Representatives and said that the first signs of the entrance of the fifth column in America would be strikes in the various in- dustries which produce wartime materials. “This is the first indication of what we face, we especially who work in the wartime industries. We know that if this type of propa_ ganda is carried on throughout the leneth and breadth of America, that the rights of organized labor are going to be throttled and or- ganized labor will not be able to function effectively. REAL FIFTH COLUMN. “T say that there has been a fifth column working in America for the past ten or twelve years. That fifth column is opposed to our demo- cratic institutions, and is made uv of the group that believes that they can keep American people in the Tolls of the unemployed, that they can use machines to throw people out of work and make more profits for themselves: ‘We know that these people are not interested in the welfare and democracy that we hold so dear in America today. We feel that those people who want to perpetuate un- employment, who seek to deprive labor of its rights such as we en- joy under the Wage and Hour Ad- ministration, under the National Labor Relations board—those rights that are inherent in the constitu- tion of this country, that those people who wish to deprive us of these rights comprise the fifth col_ umn who are threatening the democracy in America. “Eet us not be fooled by the tadios that blat and newspapers that wheeze about the threat of a foreign invasion, when the same people believe in keeping us un- employed in this country and de- priving us of our rights as Ameri- can'citizens. Let us not befooled by that type of propaganda. _ We in America realize that there is only one way for the American working people to be able to realize the democracy that was established by the founding fathers of this great nation, and that is through our democratic trade unions, and es- pecially through the trade unions aS Tepresented in the Congress of Industrial Organizations. GARFIELD A. KING BARRISTER, ETC. 553 Granville Street Progressive Federations Formed In Washington MOUNT VERNON, Wash. congressional district organizations which will take independ- ent political action, if necessary, on behalf of a program for peace, jobs, pensions and civil rights, was forged here last week with formation of the Northwest Washington Progressive Fed- eration. The new district federation is the second of its kind formed in the State this spring. The first was the Southwest Washington Progressive Federation, embracing the nine counties in the third district. With many Washington Com- monwealth Federation affilaites participating, 148 accredited dele- gates, representing 65 labor, farm, pension, youth, church, peace and political organizations, adopted a program for political action in the state and nation. The convention Was attended by about 100 fraternal delegates and registered visitors. Opposition to steps leading to- — Another link in a chain of ward United States involvement in | War was expressed in the program adopted and by speakers. or granting of credits and loans to belligerent nations and for nation- alization of all war industries. Among those who sent greet- ings to the convention was Mayor J. Lyle Telford of Vancouver. Greetings were also sent by Sen- ator Homer T. Bone, Congress- man Vito Marcantonio of New Delegates unanimously went on record against sale of war materials DENTIST Dr. R. 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