China - juvenated and made more, pro- ductive. Peasants became rich-. er througk limitation of rents, landlord. capital was diverted to manufacture, and workers won freedom of organization and trade union protection for the first time in Chinese his- tory. Trained enginering skill | was a-major bottleneck, being almost entirely absent. Today U.S. forces are flying Kuuomintang troops into the great occupied cities. But the tracts between these cities, with railways, workshops, and North China’s most important mines, iron works and power plants are controlled by the Commun- ist-led armies. The workers in the great cities as well as the peasants, gravitate toward Communist policy because it brings im- mediate rural reorganization and fair wage minimums. A. T. Steel, New ‘York Herald-Tri- bune correspondent, reported from Kalgan that this raised wages of workers there up to thrice the previous rate. Yenan broadcasts state that wages in Chefoo were increased five times. No such adjustments of Japanese slave rates are re- ported from Shanghai under Kuomintang control, where workers have been striking. The capital situation is dif- ferent. American and British policy. favors investment in Kuomintang territory only, for political reasons. But it is doubtful whether actual in- vestors will risk money in in- dustries isolated from their own markets and resources. A unit- ed, democratic China devoted to her own reconstruction could make use of all the assets, and overcome the liabilities, of the various areas. She could give strength to world economy, and world labor, instead of being a disruptive force as hitherto. “MOVING-TRANSFER” Eee ASH BROTHERS CARTAGE 2239 CAMBIE — FA.- 0469 HAst. 0340 766 E. Hastings Hastings Steam Baths ’ Vancouver, B.C. OPEN DAY and NIGHT Expert Masseurs In Attendance JOHN STANTON Barrister-Selicitor Notary Public 502 Holden Building MA. 5746—Night AL. 2177M WAND STUDIO “Anything With a Camera” 8 E. Hastings St. PAc. 7644 VANCOUVER, B.C. ¢ Pender Auditorium (Boilermakers) MODERN DANCING Every Saturday |, BOWLING ALLEYS Large and Small Halls for Rentals _ Phone PA. 9481 Two Patriots Of Spain oom hy Enrique Lister The following article by the former Commander of the Fifth Corps, Spanish Republican Army, tells the story of Santiago Alvarez and Sebastian Zapirain, Spanish Republican leaders whom Franco has condemned to die. A world-wide campaign for their release—highlighted by a five-minute protest strike in Cuba—so far has brought official inquiries from the British, American, Cuban and Argentine Embassies in Madrid. Recently a World Federation of Trade Unions delegation which visited the prisoners in Madrid was pijomised that they would be freed. Santiago Alvarez, Sebas-. tian Zapirain —- names that sound like a call to battle. Defenders of Madrid, South Spain, Aragon, Catalonia; fighters for the reconquest of the Republic. These fine Spanish patriots have been arrested in Madrid by the Falangist murderers. They had returned to Spain from exile to take their place as leaders of the Spanish people in the fight to overthrow the regime of Franco and _ the Spanish fascists. Santiago Alvarez was an ex- ample of all that a Commissar should be in the most glorious battles of the war of liberation which our people waged for 32 months, in the struggle for unity, for military discipline and for political discipline in earrying out the policy laid down by the Republican Gov- ernment. Santiago was a resolute fight- er for the formation of a united army. He set an outstanding example in the defense of Ma- drid and in the battles of Bru- nete and Aragon. In France there are thous- ands of Spaniards who fought in the Fifth Corps during the Ebro battles, with Santiago as their commissar. (The Ameri- can Abraham Lincoln and the Canadian Mackenzie Papineau Battlions were attached to the Fifth Corps at that time). Rememered as ; . Front Line Hero They have affectionate mem- ories of the young Commissar who moved about the front line trenches during. the hardest fighting and whose words and personal example were an in- spiration. They remember how the newspapers used to reach the front line and how political talks were delivered there; but