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| Correspondence

Editor, B.C. Workers News:

Dear Sir,—At a recent meeting of the city council it was made known that extra police in Vancouver had cost fifty thousand dollars. ‘This caused a Sasp of astonishment from some of the people there. The mayor Stated that the sum was really es- Sential when you are dealing with men who will kill policemen, ete.

Our mayor never mentioned the Gefenceless men, women and chil- dren who were knocked down and beaten when the police ran wild a few weeks ago in the vicinity of Bal- lantyne Pier.

To hear the mayor talk, anyone would think that the boys in the camps are criminals to be hounded around by the police and kicked from pillar to post. Does he realize that many of the boys are Aas well born and raised as his own boy? Does Mayor McGeer know anything of the despair of the mothers of these boys as they say Seo0d-bye to them as the boys steal away in the darkness of night to board a freight train to try their luck away from home?

We women who are mothers of the boys in the camps must put our shoulders to the wheel and fight to Save our boys from a living hell. Let the women join the working class organizations and show such monsters as Mayor McGeer that we are no longer weak sisters, but de— termined women who will assist our

boys to get -a decent living in Canada. ast 9th Ave. Mrs. A. @:

Vaneouver, July 15, 1935.

Hditor, B.C. Workers News:

Dear Sir,—I wish to inform you of the treatment afforded me for five and a half days while a patient in the General Hospital at Vancouver. During my stay there T caught a cold in my chest. Dr. Harrison put a bake on my shoulder which I could not possibly “bear. When Tf com- plained he told be, “being a relief case I could take it or get out.’

JI was ordered to Sign a paper toa the effect that I left the institution of my own accord. This I refused te do. IT am now worse than when I went in to the hospital. Being blacklisted from the camps I am un-_ able to get any relief or help of any description. This is the treatment Siven to destitute workers in Wan- eouver. I hope you will publish this in your paper so that other workers will see the outrase carried on by the authorities on workers in B.C.

BE. L.

Editor’s Note. —This exposure should be taken up by the mem- bers of the Relief Camp Workers still in town. This case and others should be taken to the city au- thorities, to the hospital. board, to the trade unions, and if necessary, in order to get action, a demon- stration should be staged at the hospital itself to get these suffer- ing workers proper treatment,

Editor, B.C. Workers News:

Dear Sir,—Under the heading of “Pity the TIgnoramuses” the editor of the local paper here, “The Qb- server,” flays the workers because a large number of them had the au- dacity to walk out of a meeting called by the Liberal Party to hear the candidate in the Federal election, when it was time to sing “God Save the King.”

Our cockroach editor hurls at the workers such names as “ignora- muses,” “culprits,” “‘halfwits,” ‘‘re- lief recipients,’ etc. He accuses us ef holding Russian ideas, and sug- sests wholesale shipping of militant workers to Russia.

Worlers Alert to Liberals

As a matter of fact the workers who left were well disfusted with the clap-trap peddled by the Liberal candidate, and the relief recipients who attended could see very plainly from his talk: that they would be no better off with a Liberal government in Ottawa.

Tf the reports circulating around here are true, then this literary nit- wit, who rattles around in the editorial chair, may have now been on the relief rolis, had he not been eunning enough to marry a goyvern- ment job. Quesnel, B.C. July 11, 1935.

Worker Corr.

DIGEST OF LETTERS

A. letter from CH. of Prince Aj- bert Street, Vancouver, denounces the International Armaments Trust. This correspondent states that thou- Sands of church members and mem- bers of parliament are shareholders and many of them do not realize that they are planning their own destruc- tion.

THE LUCKY ONE The winner of the draw for “Fascism and Social Revolution” was I<, Koehler, 3738 West 29th, the holder of Ticket No. 95,

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BOSSES ORDER UNION HEAD 10 CLEAN OUT REDS"

Sharp Ultimatum Sent to Dist. Pres. of I.L-A.

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SAN FRANCISCO, July 11.—If any worker is in doulbt as to who dictates the policy of the hburesu- crats of the American Pederation of Labor, the following news should dispel that doubt.

The San Francisco Employers Association mands today on the San ITrancises local of the International Tone- shoremen’s Association to clean out the radical element from its raniks. If this is not done they said they

Story

Waterfront made de-

will cancel the present working agreement, which was negotiated after last summers strike. The Waterfront bosses addressed their ultimatum to Lewis, L.A. district

president. They alSo sent a copy to the I.l.A. Convention at New Yorl:.

Bosses Disclose Lewis Responsible to Employers

“Efforts to get the San Francisco

local to discontinue strikes and

stoppages of work and to settle dis-

putes as provided by the award have

been unsuccessful,” the employers said to Lewis,

“It is your responsibility a dis- trict preident to act promptly and

decisively to end this deplorable con- dition. It is your duty to the Ameri- Can Wederation of Labor, Interns- tional Longshoremen’s Association and the United States Government to compel Local 39-79 (the San Pran- eisco local) to Comply with the award.

“Prompt assurance should be given us that the local will comply with its undertakings and abide by the award; otherwise no course will be left open but to act for our own pro- tection.” 4

PRINCETON TOOL USES LOCAL RAG 70 CURRY FAVOR

Defense Lawyer for the Strikers Is Called

““Notorious’’

A sample of venomous lackey jour- nalism is furnished by the pen pros- titute who scribbles for the Prince- ton “Star” in the hope of beine siven a chance to graduate in deseneracy from mere }bootlicking to lickine up Some crumbs that may happen to fall from the table of the mining company or the Pattullo govern- ment.

Hiding behind the tullo’s uniformed thugs, this hissing Sycophant screamed against Arthur Evans some years ago. And now the cowardly time-server hurls his men— dacious spittle at the unemployed who have been sent to prison for protesting against murderous relief policy of the bosses’? government.

Putrid Journalisni

Gut he is not content with that; the fawning literary butler pours his filth over the lawyer who defended those worlsers in the capitalist court. Here is his account of the business and his comment thereon, as printed in his dirty little boiler-plate rags:

“Bringing the total REBEL-

LIOUS unemployed relief strikers

sent to Oalsalla to ten, George

Dobie and Harold Frances Hayes,

local young men, single, were sen-

tenced to 60 days on Friday for vagrancy. A defence effort, which brought THE NOTORIOUS GOR-

DON GRANT, C.L-D.L. LAWYER FROM VANCOUVER, failed to have any perceptible effect.” (2m- phasis not the Star’s.)

The vicious moron goes on: “Dobie and Hayes were, however, TREAT- ED LENTENTLY by Magistrate P. BE. Rowlands.’’ ‘

Even the learned and able defense counsel is sneered at by the petty

Slorts, of. Pat—

Drive I Oo Ult.

At the windup of the picnic on Sunday night the June Drive had reached the objective set at the start.

This was only made possible chiefly by the splendid support given by such organizations as the Icor, Maxim Gorki Club, Press Com- mittees Ios. 4, i, 5 and 9 over-sub- seribinge their quotas and the addi- tional amounts raised by the draw- ing for the picnic prizes and the pic- nie itself which was a very good ex— ample of what the workers can do when they make up their minds to put Over a big event.

Since Sunday there have been a few more donations sent in which have not yet been added, so for the time being we will only set down the SrosS amount raised and prepare the final report for next week.

OV Bill, with the assistance of his first lieutenant—or was it the other way about? —accounted for some- thing over one hundred dollars in donations and subscriptions together, and we might say that the great percentage of this came from BEsqui- mault, while Yictoria is yet to he heard from. Eyen Sooke registered.

Gratifying Figures

The subscription list went up to nearly five hundred from 350, the last one being from the Department of Labor in Victoria—and they did not State in their letter to have it eredited to the Victoria comrades in the drive.

The amounts raised are as follows: Donations $753.32, Picnic Tickets $184.18 and the net proceeds from

the picnie itself, $75.34, makine a total of $1011.84 besides $133.40 in subs.

This amount will be somewhat

Fit Reply

League

changed by next week as there are a number of promises from differ- ent points that they will do some- thing yet to bring up their end of the work. We will then publish a full report and also show the amount which would have been raised had every one fulfilled his share of the quota. ;

' This will be very interesting to those who were pessimistic at the beginning of the drive, as well as to those who did not get into the spirit of the campaign.

At the monster picnic the mem- bers of the Women’s Labor League especially worked like trojans‘in the blazing sun, King’s Cafe cooked the roast and made a good job of it. The Vancouver Creameries donated five gallons of Palm Iee Cream.

» Winners of Picnic Drawings

Ticket No. 1357, Li. Hrickson, first prize, suit’ of clothes.

Ticket No. 85, C. I. Campbell, second prize, hat.

Ticket No. 3100, W. Katainen, third prize, pair of shoes.

Winner of Lenin Plaque (Ol Bill)

J. Drummond.

Winner of Hand Made Sweater

(OP Bill)

Ticket No. 104 (no name).

In the campaign for the B.C. Workers Wews the workers and farmers of B.C. have made a fitting reply to the slanders of the Citizens Leasue of anti-labor wretches. The eash raised will carry our work for- ward for some time. This does not mean that there should be any let- up in the drive for subs and new readers. Qur paper is beine read by more and more every issue. Keep thé ball a rolline! .

FISHERMEN SEE THROUGH FAKERS’ RUSE

Refuse to Swallow Bait; Will Depend on Rank and File

VANCOUVER, July 13. — More fishing licenses are being issued this year even though the season will be Shorter. Sockeye season opened this year for the month of July only with three idle days per week Jater changed to two.

The original price offered for sockeye was 35 cents a fish but was jater changed to 45 cents, and the threat was made to institute the sys- tem of counting two fish for one under five pounds. This was also abandoned.

There’s a Reason

The raise in price was undoubtedly

due to the successful strike of the blueback fishermen, led by the Fishermen and Cannery Workers

The boss fig- solid front of the

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Industrial Wnion. ured that with a

trollers and cannery workers, which may further be solidified by the ad- dition of the sockeye fishermen, they would lose their chance of making the huge profits on the chief catch if they forced the fishermen too far. Retormist Stratesy

At the mass meeting held in Rivers Inlet on July 6 the question of how the 45 cents price was ar- rived at was raised. The part played by four organizations, namely, the B.CE.P.A., the Up-River F. Ass’n., the Japanese FE. P. Ass'n., and the U. F. of GB. C., was discussed and it was clear to all that the executives of these organizations, under the pressure of their masters, the boss canners, fixed the price in order to get the fishermen to leave for the north. The rank and file were not consulted. Fishermen are realizing more and more that such leaders are useless to them and are leaning more

every day to the Fishermen's In- dustrial Union. CRIMINAL Heard on the skidroad: ‘‘Say, Bill,

did you hear that Mayor McGeer has borrowed a criminal investigator front the Cais”

“Well, I don’t know so much about the investigator part of it, but the criminal part is correct.”’

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ITALIAN DOCKERS WILL NOT LOAD ‘ WAR MATERIAL

GENOA, Italy, July 12.—FEfforts on the part of the Italian soyern- ment failed to mobilize 1500 dockmen of this city for discharging war ma- terial from vessels at Massana, a port in the Bast African colony of italy. This is in preparation for an attack on Abyssinia by the Italian forees now being shipped to their war base.

These dock workers were offered a daily wage of 50 lire—almost double their present wages in Genoa —vet despite this they flatly refused to be conscripted.

The Fascist government is now at- tempting to compel casual and un- employed dockmen to go to Massana to discharge the war-laden vessels.

small town parasite, although he is not fit to lick the boots of a man like Grant. He is riled because the Strikers were able to have a defense at all. Ele would evidently be much more satisfied with Hitler’s courts, although the Princeton as well as every other court in Canada is a class court, a capitalist court, and a worker: hasn't a ghost of a chance in one of them when the bosses are out to frame him and stow him away in some vile capitalist dungeon.

Dobie and Hayes, as well as other victims of capitalist justice, will be remembered with respect long after the snarling seribbler of the ‘Star’ dodders, knee-pads and all, into his erayve in snarling infamy.

4 Rubles Per Month For Workers

Back-breaking Toil and

Starvation Dole

BUT NOT IN “ROOSHYA”!

London’s Daily Herald describes the unemployment situation in New- foundland as a “revolting state of affairs.”” “‘Women and children stag- ger along the streets,’ reads the re- port, “with government soup in water pails, butter pails, tea Kettles, iron pots, paint cans—any container they can produce. Dole recipients, almost too emaciated and weak to Stand, shovelled snow in payment for their government dole; others break rock in government quarries in return for enough to prevent Starvation. Wnelish commissioners deem it necessary to have police pro- tection to and from their offices. . Official figures for the whole coun- try for February revealed that $1.83 was being spent a month an indi- vidual, while the cost of foodstuffs composing the dole ration has in- creased about 15 per cent, so that the plight of the recipients is worse than ever.”

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Church Leaders Speak Out On Longshore Strike

STATEMENT RE THE WATER-

FRONT SOTUATION BY THE

FELLOWSHIP FOR A CHRISTIAN SOCIAL ORDER.

We, members of the B.C. Branch of the Fellowship for a Christian Social Order, having carefully studied the facts connected with the present waterfront situation, and desiring the public to be better informed with reference to the whole matter, pre- sent the following preliminary state- ment:

Since June 4, 1935, some 900 men organized under the Vancouver and District Waterfront Workers’ Asso- ciation, together with at least 1600 other workers connected with the Shipping Industry in B.C., have been debarred from their regular employ- ment.

The majority of these men have had long experience at this danger— ous work and few others are quali- fied to safely fill their places. Dur- ing this time there has arisen much need among these men and their families, and the City Council has seen fit to deny relief to all those registered as -Waterfront Workers. The Vancouver & District Waterfront Workers’ Assn.

We are satisfied that from the be- ginning of this dispute these men have stood ready to enter into nego- tiations with the Shipping Pedera- tion and are prepared to go back to work pending the functioning of a proper Board of Conciliation.

That the initial feason for the men’ haying refused to unload the Steamship “‘Anten” carryine a Pow- ell River cargo was just and fair. Convincing evidence exists that the Powell River Union was and is a Valid union and that the action of the Powell River Company and Ship- ping Federation in refusing the rec- osnition of it as such, cannot be justified. This was the action that precipitated the present situation. Shipping Federation.

On May 25th the Shippine Medera- tion wired to Ottawa applying for a Board of Conciliation under the In- dustrial Disputes Act. On June the 6th, within less than twenty-four hours of the time when the men were ordered off the “‘Anten” by the Shipping Pederation, the latter body wired to Ottawa withdrawing its ap- plication for such a Board. The Di- rectors of the Federation have since that withdrawal, so far as we can

IMMIGRATION OFFICIALS FLOUT ORDER OF COURT

WINNIPEG, July 11.—Placine it- self over and above all Manitoba Provincial judiciary courts, the Im- migration department has placed a ban on the releasing of James Gole- man on bail of $1000 cash.

Coleman, after serving a six months term for activities during the Flin Plon strike, is now held at the instigation of the Immigration department, who refuse to permit release on bail although a Manitoba court ordered such procedure.

The result of this procedure is that Coleman will remain in jail until the appeal court deals with his appeal from departation, which will not be heard for some months.

The dictatorial attitude of the Im- migration ministry is plainly cal- culated to prevent Coleman partici- pating in the building of mass de- fence for himself, and also to pre- vent his participation in the build- ing of the fight against the slave camps. Coleman had been very ac- tive in the unemployed movement prior to his arrest at Flin Flon.

Free Speech In Canada

WINNIPEG, July i11—The man- agement of CK ¥ radio station late this afternoon refused to accept a paid advertisement of the relief camp strikers, which was in the form of an appeal to Winnipese citizens to provide cars for the transportation of the local trekkers to Kenora on

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the first lan of the On-to-Ottawa trek.

ascertain, refused to carry on any negotiations with the men as mem- bers of the Vancouver & District Waterfront Workers’ Association. The public have a right to know why

ithe Department of Labor permitted

such withdrawal in violation of the Act.

The Shipping Federation in pur- Suance of their obvious intent to break the Union, have turned the waterfront into an armed camp, be- hind which hundreds of inexperi- enced men are employed in this dan- gerous work. A number have already been injured; beer is being circu- lated among them. Despite the claims of the Shipping Wederation that harbor activity is proceeding normally, the facts are that the whole work is in a badly ‘crippled “condition. For example, where 25 gangs are normally used in handling: logs and lumber, only four are now

working. Ships are leaving the harbor manned by inexperienced crews,

with consequent danger to the lives of passengers. Some vessels have already put back to harbor with cargoes Shifted, due to faulty load- ing. Make Recommendations.

Having regard to the foregoing Situation, we make the following recommendations:

1. CONCILIATION: (a) We endorse the resolution adopted on June 18th last by the Vancouver Presbytery of the United Church of Canada, re- affirming the right to collective bar- gaining and demanding that the proper authorities take immediate steps to brin= about conciliation.

(b) In particular we call upon the Department of Labor at Ottawa to exercise itS powers under the Indus- trial Disputes Act (See. 65-66) to bring about conciliation. Im these Sections, the Department of Labor is specifically authorized to set up a Board, irrespective of the attitude of the parties involved in any dis- pute. We submit that in failing to act upon this authority the Wederal Government has laid itself open to the charge of haying failed in its proper role as' mediator and of hay— ing sanctioned the conduct of the Shipping Wederation.

2. RELIEF. (a) We also recom- mend that our Mayor and GCouncii take adequate measures to deal with the destitution among DLongshore- men, Seamen, and their families. Four hundred and forty families are now receiving relief through the iongshoremen’s Strike Committee, Families have been struck off the relief list, who previously received insufficient to maintain them by longshore work and therefore were properly relief recipients at the in-= ception of this dispute.

It would appear that this is not a Case of a group seeking to invoke state aid in an ordinary strike. The facts show that these men are now unjustly debarred from pursuing their regular means of livelihood and that they are ready and have re- peatedly affirmed their readiness to return to work immediately pending the proper negotiations. The public are looking to Mayor and Council to strongly further such conciliation. The roots of bitterness are strik- ing more deeply into the hearts of men and women in our community every day. They are asking only for the right to live by their own ef- forts aS men should. The core of their plea is that they shall have some voice in determining the con- ditions under which they are to per- form their dangerous work.

A situation such as this should challenge all sincere Christians to throw their full weight into a real effort towards a just settlement of this dispute, which is now paralyz- ing the business life of our province and bringing untold suffering into hundreds of homes. It is surely ob- vious to all thoughtful citizens that a speedy settlement alone humane and conciliatory lines is more in ac- cord yith the conscience of the pub- lic, than the present policy of stary- ing men into submission,

Rey. H. P. Davidson, Chairman.

&. R. Ricketts, Sec'y.

Rev. R. N. Matheson, Member Exec. Com,