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‘NANAIMO SUPPORT FOR SEAMEN °

our Denartnent
Pom Pate.

~ Prison terms for CSU men

contrast

ERNEST L. KNOTT, Nanai-

mo: May I use your columns to
comment on the recent trials of
shipping company goons, carry-
ing SIU cards, who knifed four
Canadian Seamen’s Union mem-
bers at Port Alberni?

I have the honor of being chair-
man of the Nanaimo CSU Sup-
port Committee, and have found
great support for the fighting
CSU among the working people.
Many workers are asking why
the SIU scabs were not charged
with carrying offensive weapons,
In Eastern Canada CSU men are
given long terms on suspicion of
carrying any weapon, But in the
Port Alberni case the magistrate
only fined the guilty men $200
and commented, “Sending them
te jail would serve no useful pur-
pore. |

The magistrate made this hy-
Pocritical statement at a time
when many CSU strikers in On-

Czechs celebrate

Hus anniversary

Czechdslovakia has commemor-
ated the 534th anniversary if the
death of Jan Hus, the ‘Czech re-
formist preacher and martyr who
was burned at the stake in Con-
stance on July 6, 1415, Speeches
by: officia) representatives stress-
ed the Czech Hussite tradition
and drew an analogy between the
events of the Hussite period and
those of today.

“Vatican is to all intents and
purposes opposing progress and
is trying to make Czechoslovakia
& willing tool in the hands of re-
action and capitalist imperalism.
That would mean a new menace
to our independence,” . declared
Vice Premier Zdenek Fierlinger.

Speer

to fines for SIU

tario are serving long peniten-
tiary terms at Kingston on
trumped-up charges, and when
scores more are. serving jail sen-
tences. -

The internationa] Solidarity of
labor can defeat the shipowners
and their government Supporters.

The united front developing am-
ong workers, irrespective of
union affiliation, is increasing:
and in my opinion the develop-
ment of this united front and the
raising of funds for the seamen
is the most important job facing
the labor movement at the pres-
ent time.

Nanaimo labor has rallied to
the support of the CSU and col-
lection sheets show good returns.
One CSU supporter has already -
turned in $45 on a sheet contain-
ing approximately that many
-Names,

LETTERS DIGEST

Wants independence
for Canadian unions

SAM REYNOLDS, Vancouver :
onslaught against labor unions is in. full s
that many alleged “labor leaders’
by the bosses.

It is obvious today that the
wing. It is also quite evident
" have sold out, or been scared stiff

The latest treacherous double-cross against the
men’s Union by the executive of
the Trades and Labor Congress is
simply amazing, They never seem
to learn that, in the long run,
nothing can hold progress back.

Canadian Sea-

the machinery of production which
Should long ago have made the
word poverty an obsolete word.
But the flaw in the capitalist sys-
tem of production (discovered by
Karl Marx a century ago) makes
periods of booms and busts in-
evitable. The time is approaching
when the workers wil] take over
the machinery: of production and
utilize it for the benefit of alj
mankind.

However, it is possible that it
will be for the best eventually,
for the time is fast approaching
when Canada will have to do
what other countries have done
long ago; that is, we will have to
form a completely independent la-

bor Congress of Canada. The Pacific Tribune views the

struggles going on today from a
Marxist viewpoint. The Vancou-
ver Sun’s columnist, Mamie Ma-
loney, viewing the struggle of
workers to survive and develop,
thinks she’s reading the funny
papers.

Nothing can stop the workers
from moving to the left in the
coming period, and the bosses’
agents will be trampled under
their feet.

* * *

JOHN LEE, Ruskin, 3.G.2 In

North America we have produced * * *

CLASSI

“G”, Nanaimo: Lumber opera-

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“T’ve just found something for you to do in your spare time.”

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CURRENT MOVIES

Pleasant technicolor

S884 Hichly ‘Recommended *#* Recommended
** Acceptable *Not Recommended

**The Blue Lagoon: This trite sto

up together on a South Sea
better

ry of two children who grew »
island after being shipwrecked _ is
entertainment than one might expect. To begin with, the
Technicolor is superb. Then there’s Noel Purcell’s fine per-
formance as the Irish sailor who fends for the castaways in the
early part of the picture—until the plot requires that he meet
an untimely end. Add to this a fine performance by Jean Sim-

mons (she was Ophelia in Hamlet) as the grown
in the latter part of the film,

**Champion

-up island maiden
and the result is a pleasant picture.

**The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend, The Search, Sand,
The Weaker Sex, The Barkleys of Broadway, The Window.
*Law of the Barbary Coast,

_tor MacMillan recently expressed
his contempt for his employees

FIED

A charge of 50 cents for each

and the IWA by unlawfully add-

WHEN BUYING OR SELLING ing 20 minutes to the workday
insertion of five lines or less with home, acreage or business, CON- at his South Forks operation run
10 cents for each additional line SULT CARLTON REALTY. by “Victoria Lumber Company”,
is made for notices ap in} “Auto and Fire Insurance, 1749 And this was done during the
this column. No notices will be Kingsway. Phone FA. 4610, or course of negotiations!

&ccepted later than Monday noon Eve., DE. 3412-1, J F. Wolosh :
of the week of publication. ab dhe an aul =f
Oldtime Dancing | | MEETINGS—

To Alf Carlson’s Orehestra
' Every Wednesday and Saturday
Hastings Auditorium
Phone HAstings 1248
Moderate Rental Rates
For secials, weddings, meetings

Russian People’s Home—
available for meetings, weddings
and banquets at reasonable rates,
600 Campbell Ave. HA. 0087. |

Dance, Clinton Raill—

2605 East Pender. Dance every
Saturday night. Modern and
Old-Time. Viking’s Orchestra,
Hall is available for rent,
HAstings 3277,

CRYSTAL STEAM BATHS—
Open every day. New Modern

DE. R. L. DOUGLAS HAS OPEN. _ WILLIAM Z. Foster's

VERY SMART INBOARD Mo- fi

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Barristers, Solicitors, Notaries
SUITE 515, FORD BUILDING, 193 E, HASTINGS ST.

(Corner Main & Hastings Sts.) MArine 5746 ieee

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in: ae Aceknib cs: tore in Seattle, more than 1000

were sold, it is reported by Mar-
ion Kinney, manager. This is an
unprecedented sale for any book
in any store, she said, —

WHAT’S DOING?

SWE-
dish Park every Saturday night.
Dancing from 9-12. Arne John-
son’s Orchestra.

720 W. Hastings -

Beauty Salon—1763 E. Hastings.
HAstings 0094.

SALLY BOWES—

INCOME Tax PROBLEMS.
Room 20, 9 East Hastings:
MA. 9965.

LITHUANIAN LITERARY Sso-

Upstairs

=== KEEP THIS DATE OPEN! —____>

ANNUAL LABOR PICNIC
SUNDAY, AUGUST 7

ciety Picnic,
Lulu Island &
Take No. 17 ¢
No. 2 Bus le

Sunday. July 24,
No. 2 Maple Rd.
ar to Marpole and
aves every 2 hours.

At. Confederation Park

Fine Food Sports — Popular Girl Contest

Everybody welcome,

— Wrestling and Boxing —

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