mply to demand the “mani-

Vote right! Vote Communist 7 station of the will of the peo- &

and strike a blow for Unity

® toward peace” is Reformism. —LENIN

B.C. Workers News

after the election.

Published Weekly

VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1935

Single Copies: 5 Cents

SS

No. 39

AN. E

: uge Majority Declares *To Halt Italy’s Rape of Ethiopia

AR DANGER EXISTS

SENEVA, Oct. 10—Fifty-one na- Has approved sanctions against fly at the Assembly of the League Nations and it was decided at by Steering Committee of the Lea- ie Assembly that the Sanctions “ordinatine Committee would com- se all members of the League, ex- Hting Ttaly and Ethiopia. S.wustria, Hunsary and Italy her- * were the only states in opposi- @i to sanctions. Switzerland made Preservation, Claimine that their @ntry did not feel bound to take ®t in sanctions which would ex- je their country to real danger. President Benes questioned as to pether any more wished to dissent to make reservations, No one else, and the decision of the Coun- declaring Italy resorted to war hlefiance of Artice 12 of the League @venant, was declared approved. "ion. Howard Ferguson, J. H. ‘ods and Bdouard Montpetit, rep- entatives for Canada, maintained Silence of assent with the over- S2imine majority. Soviet Union Spealis. tutStanding, among the state- ats made by the various minis- > Present was that of Viadimir emkin, Soviet delezate. ) The position taken by the U.S.S }in the Italo-Ethiopia conflict is sady well Known.” He said it 's only necessary to repeat the *®2nt words of the Soviet Foreign Somissar, Maxim Litvinoff. “The (Continued on page $3)

SMINTERN CALLS | FOR TIE-UP OF WAR SHIPMENTS

MOSCOW, Oct. 10.—The ‘xecutive Committee of the ammunist Internationale day published a call to ansport workers through- it the world to tie up the lipment of goods to Italy an effort to force suspen- on of the war with Ethi-

*resence Of

Puts Teeth

.9.5.R.

n League

An Open Letter To The Mayor

Feneral miectinge of the Workers’ Ex-Servicemen’s League held on Monday, September 30, strong exception was taken to re- marks allegedly made by Mayor G. G. MeGeer when, in reply to a questioner, he is alleged to have stated, “The McGeers served, but not to get off the breadline.”

The erossly insulting suggestion that most of the Veterans joined for a meal ticket, following on the use of the cenotaph from which he read the Riot Act. calls for a public apology to the Veterans.

Therefore, be it resolved, That Mayor McGeer be called on to apologize either in the press or over the air.

Be it further resolved, To call on all Veteran Organizations to pro- test likewise.

Labor Backs M. McKimnon

Fishermen, Loggers and Miners Will Help Elect

Union Man

<

At the

COURTENAY, Oct. 1—fFiling his nomination papers and posting his $200 deposit, Mack MacKinnon. lead- ine union member and working class fighter, definitely entered the six- cornered fight for the Federal can- didacy in the Como-Alberni riding here today.

To insure that no technicalities should obstruct the filing of his papers, 2 considerable number of Cumberland miners and unemployed

workers came in to Courtenay and stayed close to the candidate’s cam- paign committee during the day pre- pared to make out new papers if necessary. x Labor Unity Platform. In the field as a straight Labor candidate, with no political affilia- Hions, and with a platform of labor unity, MacKinnon is receiving wide backing from miners, fishermen, loggers and unemployed miners and farmers throughout the riding.

ia.

ELECT MALCOLM BRUCE!

aity of Two Winnipeg Unions Established,

Results in s in Merger

REAT _VICTORY

au @rstnwe ational Re- -overy Gives Workers : Increased Strength

By MARY HICHEN. VINNIPEG, Oct. 3. — Registering pnominal Sains in organizational sneth, Winnipee cloal makers, sr facing the bosses of the entire al cloak trade with militant unity parations for strike, have been iceded wage increases ranging m 5 to 15 per cent. The agree- nt grantine the wage increase and er concessions, was reached Wed- day night at a conference be- sen representatives of the manu- furers and the International dies’ Garment Workers’ Union, i unanimously approved by the | workers concerned at a2 mass etine held in the Trades Labor ll, Thursday morning.

\monz the terms of the agreement (1) 15 per cent increase in wages

OAK MAKERS WIN INCREASED WAGES, BETTER JOB CONDITIONS

Ves those previously getting $10 per

| between $19 and $30.

week or less, 10 per cent to those e€arnine between $10 and $19, and $i per week increase to those receiving (2) Closed union shops. (3) Time and a quarter for overtime after first eight hours in any work. (4) forty-four hour week till June 15, 1936, and there- after a 42-hour week. (5) Opening of negotiations on June 15, 1936, for further wage increase.

Organizational Gains Made.

Victory came as a result of the merger of the cloak makers section of the Industrial Union of Needle Trades Workers’ and the Interna- tional Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. and today work in all shops in the trade was temporarily stopped for the re-registration of all work- ers in the trade to ensure only union members with “working cards” en- tering the shops.

Meetings of the employees of all shops in the trade were held during the stoppage and the able assistance of Organizer Jack Disenhouse, shop chairmen and committees elected br these shops where they did not pre- viously exist, completing a full or- ganizational recovery from the fects of the smashed 1934 general strike.

aot. Cr=—

COMMUNIST

On October i4th,

munist candidates in the field.

MAKE SURE OF THEIR ELECTION!

ANDIDTE CONSTITUENCY PROVINCE During the past five See Ss ae eee ee ne Soe B. McLachlan Cape Breton South Nova Scotia eee yee ee ps os ae ee and the Communist Party. = S in se s & = s ous to ed Rose Cartier (Montreal) Quebec eee of people in Canada who toiled hard in vain, TH G a paS m Scariett Toronto Rosedale Ontario by the policies of the Conservative Party in power, and ne Communis BEY, rm Toronto Trinity Ontario now the lot of the people is made more uncertain eee B Sal ee Toronte Spadina Ontario through the menace of another Imperialist war into defeat the capital *s Sa sberg Ontario which the Canadian capitalists may hurl the youth of z SE ae m Ewen Cochrane 25 the country unless. the war plans are foiled. we ca Or EN T. Hill Nipissing Ontario Liberals Will Bring Further Chaos eee ee E. Smith Pt. Arthur-Thunder B. Ontario All of the capitalist parties will bring further Ee pone gains i z irk Manitoba chaos. Remember, it was the King, Liberal Govern- s an NOES Selkirk Jorth Manitoba ment which was in office from 1921 to 1930 that re- isd tacihe: tél n Buck Winnipeg Nort 3 fused to do anything to relieve the misery of the Pee : C. Doolan Edmonton East Alberta masses, but instead, maintained the profits of the Popovich Veegreville ete rich by placing the burden of the depression on the iicolm Bruce Vancouver East «CU. poor.

the ses of Canada go to the polls. There are enough labor candidates in the field for the workers and farmers to elect an anti-capitalist majority of CCF. and Communist members to the next House of Commons.

Besides calling for labor unity in the elections, the Federal Communist Election Committee will also put the following Com-

CANDIDATES

bearing on the lives of the workers, middle clas

WORK T0 SUNSET: HEAPS PROGRAM

Nothing About Unem- ployment, Fascism or Imperialist War

By CARL HICHIN-

WINNIPHG, Oct. 7—Not one word concerning unemployment, not one word concerning slaye camps, not one word concerning the present hopeless lot of Canadian youth, not one word concerning the repeal of Section 98, appear in a leaflet, writ- ten in Jewish, issued by the C.C.F. federal candidate, A. A. Heaps, to all Jewish electors of North Winnipee, in which Heaps makes his first printed statement of policy, or pro- Sram, during the present campaign.

Nor, apparently, with war now an actuality, does this Conservative supported C.C.Meer. intend to oppose this disaster of the common people. He merely stands for ‘“‘no assistance or participation.’

The program is as follows:

“You shall not take any interest. Do not force your slave to worlx after the sun sets. Do not let your Slave, your horse, or your donkey work nore than six days per weel. With your own werk you shall earn your own living and not with the sweat and blood of your brother man.” (Quotations are verbatim translation from the leaflet, even the emphasis is that of Mr. Heaps.)

Shorter work day? No. Merely no work after sunset. But, comment is unnecessary. except perhaps to add that the whole publication for- gets that there is*eyven such a thing as a working class, for it is never onee mentioned. Rich and poor are bunched together in the approved Conservative party fashion.

ELECT MALCOLM BRUCE!

BOARD GRANTED | ISLAND MINERS

Charlie Stewart to Rep- resent Cumberland

Coal Miners

CUMBERLAND, B.C, Oct. 10.— Charles Stewart, streetcar conductor. and well known labor man in Van- couver, has been chosen to represent the miners on a conciliation board that has been granted by the gov- ernment to sit and bring in find-

ings for a settlement between the Cumberland miners and the coal company.

It is not made known yet who will represent the company on the board, nor who will be the chairman, nor when the board will commence sit- tings,

The board is the result of a dis- pute between the company and the miners over contract work, and the firing of the leading members of the union by the company, 45 of the miners being discriminated azainst after the company had locked out the miners and when threats had been made by the union to prepare a strike, the miners voting to strike by a large majority.

it is considered likely in Cumber- Jand by the miners that had no strike vote been taken favorable to act, the government would have assited the company to break the strensth of the union and no board would have been eranted.

FLASH

Crew of the “Niagara,” Australian Mail ocean pack- et refuse to leave home port for B.C. Ports until assured that cargo will be dis- charged in Vancouver by Union Jaber.

The War is here. spokesman who will act!

against the war.

inevitable “next step’

out of the skies.

TIM BUCK CALLS FOR ELECTION OF M. BRUCE TO HELP STOP WAR

This Election Is Not Gnilea a Question of Economic _ Needs, but Almost of Life Itself for a Whole

Generation of Canadians

By TIM BUCK Weitten by Special Request for the B.C. Workers’ News War demands action! Elect Malcolm Bruce to help lead the struggle for the freedom of the youth and

On the 14th of October the electors of Vancouver East along with those of the rest of Canada will go to the polls to cast a ballot for the candidate of their choice. It has been reiterated so often that this is the most important election campaign in the history of Canada that it seems unnecessary to emphasize the fact again, but it is important to emphasize the decisive turn that events have now taken.

After six years of crisis and ruthless efforts to unload the whole burden of the crisis onto the common people, the of reactionary imperialist capital has been taken. Fascist Italy has invaded Ethiopia. Italian troops are pouring into the last independent Empire of the colored people. Mussolini’s ““Blackshirt” marauders are already mur- dering Ethiopian peasants. Thousands of peaceful Ethiopian people have met death—frightful and inescapable—hurtling

Peace Is Indivisible Unless it is stopped soon, it will not stop there. As Maxim Litvinoff warned the League of Nations, the world is in such a condition today that Peace is INDIVISIBLE. Either peace

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Elect a

ST RALLIES IN SUPPORT FOR BRUCE ©

Daily Growth Of Support For M. Bruce; Thousands Signify

Intention To Vote Communist

COMMUNIST CANDIDATE IN VANCOUVER EAST

MALCOLM BRUCE

Emery Leads Argument for Locked-Out l

Dockers | INQUIRY ENDS

Liberal Lawyer Farris Makes Vicious Anti- | Red Attack

Oet. 10—Conclua- ing the waterfront inquiry which lasted nearly one month, with Judse Davis presiding, the representatives of the Shipping Federation and the Longshoremen met last night for preliminary discussion with Commis- Sioner Davis and after three hours’ discussion adjourned at 10 p.m.

J. E. Hall. president of the Ship ping Federation, Duncan Cameron, one of the four directors, and Cap- tain Crawford, president of the

VANCOUVER,

Strike a blow at capitalist

robbery! Vote Communist!

The following e ection

Workers

The Dominion Election on Oct. importance to the people of Canada. The outeome of this election will

Ss

people.

statement Communist Party has been received by the B. C. ” News for publication in these columns. The Editorial Board of this paper calls upon the elector- ate to read and study the statement and to unite at the polls on Monday to put into the House at Ottawa C.G.F., Progressive Labor and Communist candidates to fight for the economic needs of the common people. To the Electorate of British Columbia:

14th is of

have small farmers, and

Elect Malcolm Bruce; Elect Mack Mackinnon And The C. C.F. Federal Candidates

Since the Liberal Government was defeated by the Bennett Conservative Party the policies of the Lib- erals have undergone no change for the better, as witness the actions of the Liberal Governments in

issued by the

B.C., Quebec and

police guns, loggers, unemployed when decisive The Stevens but a breakwater and large capitali

tremendous

over the masses of common people who are deserting the old capitalist parties and going over to the C.C.F.

(Continued on page 3)

The Pattullo Liberal Government in B.C. has used elubs and the camp-boys,

A Breakwater of Reaction “Reconstruction”

Communists Urgently Appeal for Unity ent call to the common people of B.C. to décisively of Communist and C.C_F. candidates in this election.

of the growing determination of the common people

It is not the first time the Communists have ap-

We Communists have appealed to the National Com- mittee and the Provincial Councils of the C.CF. to

other provinces. imprisonment against the

the longshoremen and the they asked for a decent living.

Party is nothing of reaction, set up by the financiers sts to attract and retain influence

therefore, makes this urg- ist parties and to elect a majority at the polls as a demonstration

poverty, against fascism, and

lers by Hand and brain to unite.

LONGSHOREMEN AND BOSSES BEGIN SEMTLEMENT PARLEY

Enipire Stevedoring Co., were the representatives for the Federation, while Ivan Emery, longshore lIead- er, who presented the waterfront workers’ case at the inquiry, W. Mitchell and Paddy Qwen Coyle represented the longshoremen. Labor-Hater Farris Vents Spleen. Mr. Farris, well known Liberal Jawyer, and former attorney-general in a former John Oliver govern- ment. was legal adviser to the Siip- ping Federation during the probe

and Ivan Emery, militant leader of the longshoremen, conducted the ease for the men.

Harris made a vicious attack upon the longshoremen’s union and at- tempted to turn the probe into a red- baiting inquiry and declared that “an epidemie of strikes followed their union building.” Browbeatinge wit- nesses and union officials, he de- manded to Know why the union did not affiliate with the Trade and La- bor Council (A.F.of L.) as it was the “oldest Jabor organization’’ in the city. By the same token he might have said that all the churches from the Seventh Day Adventists to the Church of England should affiliate to the Roman Catholic Church.

No Settlement Expected Before

Election. Discussions will be resumed and the finding will be submitted to the

Shipping Wederation and to the long- Shoremen and seamen. It is expect- ed that no concrete settlement will be reached this week, and the commis-

Sioner will leave for Ottawa this week-end. In the meantime, picketting is be-

ing strengthened on the waterfront, and arrests of pickets are a daily oc- currence, due to Mayor McGeer’s Policy of Providing extra police for the Shipping Federation at the ex- pense of the taxpayers.

New Zealand Crew Stand Solid With Strikers Till Agree- ment Reached.

Seheduled to sail at 10 a.m. with 215 passengers, mail and freight for Honolulu and the Antipodes, the Monowai was held at her berth at Pier C until after dark, when the Geck and engine room crews, mem- bers of the New Zealand Seamen’s Union, refused to “‘work’’ the shin. due to the fact that she had been loaded by strike-breakers.

The crew were in conference with the longshoremen and it was decided at nightfall that the crew would take the boat out.

It is significant that as the boat carries “Royal Mail" the boat could have been worked by the Royal Navy had the crew walked off in sym-

pathy with the strikers.

At "Frisco, most of the boats have been released by agreement with the dockers in B-C., and yesterday 2,000 lonsshoremen went to work on ships which had been tied up, whilst 17 yet remain to be @.K2d.

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1 Mass Dicuiburen of Lit- erature Enlightens Electorate

BRUCE POPULAR

Opposition to Unity Is Proving Fatal for Mc- Innis’ Election

Malcolm Bruce, Communist candi- date, is making numerous friends in Vancouver East through the election campaign conducted by masses of Communists and supporters, at meet- ings, concerts and through extensive canvassing and distribution of Jeaf- lets and Communist election pamph- lets:

Communist policies for the amel- idration of the suffering of the toil- ing people have been disseminated threughout this constituency as never befora over 5000 people being contacted and conversed with in the last three weeks. In Hastings Street Hast, in the Fraser Street and Wic- toria Drive areas. especially the peo- ple are behind Bruce and well over 50 per cent of those canvassed have Signified their intention to vote for him.

Communist Is Outstanding Candidate. z

All this week there has been a daily distribution of leaflets, 150,000 being circulated, besides many thou- sands of pamphlets being sold and Siven away.

At all of the election meetings held where there were other party Candidates speaking, it is noticable that there is no heckling or disturb- ance of any kind when Bruce has the floor. At one such meeting in the Community Hall, on Victoria Road, the Conservative was laughed at; the Liberal, MacDougall, was heckled and questioned; McInnis, the C.C.F! eandidate, was booed. and de- rided for voting for Bennett's fake insurance bill, whereas Bruce was Siven an attentive hearings. and the audience was just as mixed as re. gards their political affiliation as any audience in the Hotel WVancou- ver meetings.

Automobiles at Disposal of Voters

The Communist Election Commit- tee report that they have now 30 cars at their disposal to take voters to the polling booths on Monday, and anyone who wants to get to their polling booth can eall up Fairmont 4473 and a car will call for them,

The committee is ready to accept additional cars for this use. McInnis’ Defeat Foregone Conclusion

The Communist Election Commit- tee reports to the “B.C. Workers’ News’ that McInnis is Sure of de- feat on Election Day, and that with intensified activity and more assist- ance to the mass of Bruce workers in the constituency, the Liberal can- didate, even though dangerous up to now, can be sent down to defeat too. An open air eee at Forty-ninth and Fraser at 7 o'clock is to be held. The committee "eile for a mass turn- out this Wweek- end, and plenty of Scrutineers, cars and directors on election day, plenty of convincins propaganda and information on the Communist program up to midnight

Sunday, and the election of Bruce is assured.

Vets Spike Telford Lies

Radio Slane Campaign of Mountebank Hits a Snag

Ammy and Navy Veterans have publicly issued a denial of the charge

made by Dr. Telford that their or- Sanization had supplied $500 to the Action Committee of Ex- Servicemen for a mecting to be held in the Hotel Vancouver.

AS Robert Wilkinson, Liberal M.L.A., is the Signing officer of the Veterans’ organization, Dr. Telford in his slanderine campaign attempt- ed to further infer that Liberals are financing the active veterans who are placine their demands before all candidates.

The denial of the Army and Navy Veterans reads in Part of collows:

A statement has been made re- cently by Dr. Lyle Telford by radio broadeast to the effect that $500 had been granted to the Action

Committee of E-Servicemen by the

Army and Navy Veterans for the

purpose of promoting an Ex-Ser-

vicemen’s rally to be held in Hotel

Vancouver, Thursday, October 10.

This statement is absolutely untrue

4s the Army and Navy benevolent

funds cannot be used for any such purpose. J. FADES W ARD, Provincial Secretary.

ELECT MALCOLM BRUCE!