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B.C. WOREERS’ NEWS

December 24, i986

Soviet Gypsies Scrap Fortune

Telling For Collective Farms

New Constitution Dis-

. e¢ussed and Approved By Group

MOSCOW :.—Gypsies camping near

Slvyank, Azoy-Black Sea territory, listened to the reading of the new

constitution tion. At the close of the meetin Ivan Mironichenko,

with undivided atten-

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declared: “The new Soviet constitu—

tion oeffers us a Shall now collective farms.” Who already

pass to life.

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We settle down and enter Gypsies had become collective

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farmers are now better informed than the fortune-tellers, and no longer believe them.” She approved of the article in the constitution which says that only those who work shall] eat. “We Gypsies,” Donchenko said, “want to work to- gether with all other citizens of the Soviet Union and will do so. Our

women are particularly pleased be- Cause they are given equal rights With men. We never voted before, put now we shall certainly do so.”

SINGLE JOBLESS WOMEN IN DIRE CIRCUMSTANCES

Organization Begins! Drive for Equal Rights With Men

Organized to take a keener in- terest in the cases of single unem- ployed women of Vancouver, the Single Unemployed Women’s Pro- tective Association is engaged in the

task of preparing a brief to present to Mrs. Mary Sutherland, of the federal unemployment office, on

conditons among this section of the population.

The most pitiful case to come to the attention of this organization was that of a young girl irom Swift Current, who was devoid of underwear, had not eaten once in twenty-four hours, had no place to sleep, and was badly in need of medical] attention,

Relief authorities ordered her back to Swift Current, despite the fact that she had been ‘refused relief there.

Figures given out by Mr. Bone of the city relief department, show that there are 397 single women on relief between the ages of 20 and 70. His figures are:

Twenty-nine women between 20 and 29 years, 41 between 30 and 39, 67 between 40 and 49, 135 between 50 and 59, and 125 between 60 and 70 years.

August and November, 295 single women had passed through his office seeking work and of this number 80 per cent were unemployable through physical disabilities.

All aplicants are given relief only after their cards have been signed “no work” by the Government Em- ployment Service or a doctor’s cer- tificate proving them unfit. Any of them who land a job usually find out that the job pays such miser- ably low wages that they cannot exist.

The organization has started a Campaign for the same relief allow- ance as single men receive.

PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia,_{FP)— The Czechoslovakian Social Demo- cratic Party increased its local or- ganization from 5,809 to 6,091 in the first six months of 1936, according to the central secretary of the party-

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‘PRIVATE HICKS’ POIGNANT PLAY

Wew laurels were added to the Jone list of the Progressive Arts Players last Friday and Saturday evenines in the Labor Temple with the presentation of “Priyate Hicks” and “Waiting for Lefty.”

Wiaile “‘Ierivate Hicks” has not the same moving appeal as that ob- tained in “‘Waitinge for Lefty,” it

carried, very forcefuly, a condemna-— tion of using troops to break strikes.

Tom Clinton, who, by virtue of his war experience, gave a masterly performance in the role of Major Beccles, commanding the company of

National Guard sent to fire on Strikers in an industrial mid—-west- em City.

David Rankin, as Hicks, gave a good account of himself as the buck private who refused to shoot the Strikers. Wictoria Rendell as the nurse also deserves mention.

The cast was well chosen and de- servéd the ovations accorded them On each performance by the en- thusiastiec audiences. Others in the cast were Harry Hoshosky, Mike Isunka, William Turner, Harry Louis, G. O'Neil and Harry Bryan.

Presentation of “Waiting for Lefty” improves with each perform- ance and, although presented to no fewer than forty audiences, it still proved a drawing card and a hig hit.

Garfield Kang, director, played the part of Agate Keller, which was formerly filled by that adnnrable artist, Guy Glover. Mr. King played his role very well, sustaining the tenseness of the drama and bringing it to a tremendous climax.

By her facial expressions, her gestures and the manner in which she spoke her lines, asthough re- living the scene, Gwynn Adair scored a great success.

Other artists who, in the “Lefty”

play, turned in good performances Were Lynn Gibb, M. Nichols, Ed. Lauk, Katherine Bruce, Chas.

Boardman, Bill Kunka, D. DT. Kris- tianson, Hary Koshosky, Mike Kunka, Theodore Boresky and Ben Sochasky.

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‘Cuban Labor Leader Tells | Of Batista’

Many Are Dead, Jailed, |

But Fight for Rights Goes On

NEW YORK. —(FP)—You are a Cuban werker, let us suppose. You don't like wages and conditions. You talk, maybe organize. The boss phones the army, and you are led off to a military dungeon.

This is the situation in unhappy Cuba today, as related by exiled Cesar Vilar, elected president in 19384 of Cuba’s 415,000 organized workers in the Cuban Wederation of Labor.

Fight Goes On.

Wot that many are organized to- day. Many are dead, many are in prison, but “a surprising number fight on. Cuba's trade unions are emerging into an open existence in many industries, but they are up against a bitter fight with the Cu- ban chief of staff, Col. Iulgencio Batista, who would like to set up a Fascist dictatorship.

Pres. Miguel Mariano Gomez, though no liberal, has his diferences With Batista” ‘Batista wants to es- tablish 3000 semi-military schools, with army sergeants as teachers. To finance his military plans, Batista has gone to bat with Gomez on a bill to levy a 9 cent a bag tax on Cuba’s sugar production.

Wilar was arrected in November, 1935, and ammestied in August this year. But Batista refused to respect the civil government's amnesty and rearrested him after half an hour. International protest made him tao hot to hold, however, and he was exiled.

World Protests Needed.

Help of world needed, Vilar reports, to save Ra- mon Garcia Pujol, 30-year-old lawyer and National Agrarian lead- er, and Mario del Toro, 22-year-old student leader, who are under death sentence following conyiction of anti-government activities by ur-

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Howl To Outlaw Strikes

Editor, B.C. Workers’ News:

The following letter was sent to the Daily Province on the 19th, but with no results:

New Laws Needed to Avoid Strikes.

With reference to the article on Page 6 of the Daily Province of the 16th inst., headed as above. e Speaking to the Insurance, Iinan- cial and Real Hstate Bureau of the Board of Trade in the Hotel Van- couver on Monday, the 15th imst., Mr. W. Martin Griffin, K.-C. urges the creation of new laws to settle industrial disputes, and so prevent them from developing into strikes.

He suggests that the government should lay down exact regulations for wages and conditions to apply to Jongshoremen, just as it now lays down regulations for seamen,- and he further suggests that dictators do it, and ‘‘why can’t we here?’’

We can appreciate Mr. Griffin's concern for more laws, because more laws mean more business for the members of his profession, hut unfortunately laws as suggested by Mr. Griffin do not solve the prob- lem of preventing Strikes, not even under dictatorship. as the following will show:

In October of this year, the crew of the German steamer ‘Wittell (well known in Vancouver) ceased work. The cause ~of the stoppage Was that, for reasons of economy, too few firemen have been employed, and that the rest of the crew was requested to make up for the miss- ing firemen. The crew was arrest- ed by the Gestapo (German Secret Police).

That the crew of the Wittell had to take strike action, proves the rottenness and untenability of con- ditions under dictatorships on Ger- Man steamers. We have not heard yet what hoppened to the crew, but Mr. Griffin asks why Wwe cannot apply this system here, and we won- der whether he has in mind the re-

introduction of the slave-galley system. He states that wages and condi-

tions for Seamen’in Canada are regulated by law. The writer has been in close touch with the labor movement in Canada over 30 years, and during all that time wages and conditions. for seamen have been ar- rived at through negotiations be- tween the organization of the ship- owners and seamen, negotiations in which the government at no time

took part. He also appears to be misinform- ed on the question of strikes

amongst seanien, because, if he were familiar With the conditions under which a great many seamen are compelled to exist, would be sur- prised that more strikes do not oc- cur. Hardly a week passes in the Old Country that some scrap-heap, called a ship, is being investigated for violations against safety laws, overloading, the lack of proper food, under-manning, excessive hours, etc., and methings a similar inves- tigation took place on the lakes in Canada this summer.

We would point out to Mr. Griffin that irrespective of what laws as passed on the statute books, to regu- jate conditions for the workers, ship- owners only observe them when it does not interfere with their profit, and they can generally hire some smart lawyer to see that the law is interpreted in their interest.

The only way the worker can off-

"set this, is by building strong, lesi-

timate trade unions to protect his interests.

It is quite evident that Mr. Gri- fin is speaking for interests other than his own, when he urges that lezislation be enacted against strikes

by longshoremen, the question of

Publisher Breaks Anti-Union Chain

NEW YORK. —(FP)—J. David Stern, publisher of the liberal New York Post, Philadelphia Record and Camden Courier-Post, has resigned from the American Newspaper Pub- lisers’ Association in protest against its advice not to negotiate with the American Newspaper Guild or even recognize it to theextent of “Buletin board announcements.”

Cause and effect being ignored by him—he assumes that the worker is wholly responsible. Perhaps Mr. Griffin has not heard of the system from one of the dictator countries, which has been operating on the Vancouver waterfront since the fall of 1923, which allows the employers

full swing in putting into effect such peace-assuring things as “speed-up,” favoritism, discrimina-

tion, excessive hours, refusal to al- low men to form unions of their own choice, elimination of those who rebel against intolerable conditions, utter indifference as to the welfare of workers, and this can be easily proven by referring to the appalling: list of skilled and maimed on the Vancouver waterfront during the last twelve years.

Conditions such as the foregoing are the cause of Strikes, and until such time as this is discarded and co-operation substituted, all the laws from now till Doomsday will not solve the problem of preventing: strikes.

Yours truly, THOMAS NIXON.

S.U.P.A. Aids Man Sick With Measles

Medical services are definitely not for those who have not the finances to buy them. That is the impres- Slon gained from the case of a roomer at the Dominion Hotel.

Tomkinson was Striken with measles a few days ago, and efforts to have a doctor attend him met With failure. Much the same re- sults were had from the city clinic and quarantine officers, who in- formed the delegation that such cases are prevalent all over the city.

Finally after considerable search- ing Dr. McDonad was reached and diasmnosed the case as measles, Six tablets were left and the patient ordered to stay in bed. Mrs. Mce- Intyre, the proprietor of the hotel, Was charged with the responsibility of the case.

The Single Unemployed Protective Association have furnished the sick man With food since he cannot go out for meals, and is also trying to have the authorities take more precautions in cases of this kind. There are two other men in the Same room who are Subject to con- tract the disease.

The Ruling Ciauwiss

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s Fascist Plans

Marxian Quarterly Resumes Publication

NEW YORK (&P)—In that Marxist theory has been “pointedly neglected in scholarly fields,” Science & Society, a Marxian Quarterly, has made its appearance to “bring studies in the field of natural and social sciences into the focus of a world movement against reaction and obscurantisn.’’ The business office is at 310 E. 7sth St., New York City. Editors are Albert E. Blumbers, Edwin Berry Gurgum, V. J. McGill, Margaret Schaluch and Bernhard J. Stern.

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gency courts which require no proof. They will be shot within 24 hours after the very short period of appeal to the supreme court expires.

Rallying a united movement against Batista can create favorable ground for complete legalization of Guban trade unions, says Vilar. In 1933, when unions were strons, lab- orers in the sugar fields got 80 cents to $1 per eight hours’ work- Now they get 25 cents to 35 cents and work from sun to sun. Harbor Workers, the best paid, have seen their dsily wages fall from $3.67 to $2.50 under GBatista’s growing power.

YCL Expels Chas. Caron

The Resident Committee of the Young Communist League wishes to announce through the columns of your paper, that Charles Caron, former Financial Secretary of the ¥C.L., has been expelled for mis- appropriation of funds. In addition to the misappropria- tions he borrowed money in the name of the League, without auth- ority All money received by Caron in the form of loans will be re- funded in due time. We wish, how- ever, to announce that the Y¥.C.L. will not be responsible fer any money collected by any person henceforth without proper creden- tials, signed by Miss Mona -Fletch- er, treasurer of the ¥.C.L.- We expect that the betrayal of faith, placed in Caron by our or- | ganization, will serve as a means for sreater vigilance on the part of other labor organizations against those people who wish to use our movement for personal gain. RESIDENT COMMITTEE, Young Communist League.

Discontent Grows In Langley Municipality

LANGLEY, Dec. 18—Discontent among the farmers of this munici- pality is rife over the manner in which the council admiunistrates their affairs.

The latest act of the council, that while refusing to assist a farmer on the Telegraph Trail] to move to an- other place when he had received an order to vacate, the council through the clerk informed him that he could sell his stock to the new occupants and save moving.

The farmer was also curtly tola that if he did not hurry up and vacate the place the sheriff would be On hand with plenty of help to evict him.

“Tell mama this job will laid off.”

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How the New sizes them up:

Pennies from Heaven—Nothine to wire the folks back home. Weak story with plenty of gaps into which Bing Crosby steps to sing pleasant tunes.

Banjo on My BGnee—Lacking in Mississippi River flavor it tries so hard to get. An old man wants a grand-babe so badly he moves heaven and earth to bring his son and daughter-in-law together.

Film Alliance

Love’ in Exiie—Although consid- ered a natural in film trade he- eause it’s about a kine who abdi- cates for love, this British-made piece is receiving no attention—as it rightfully deserves.

Abyssinia—Soviet picture showing some terror-Strikinge seenes of Italian planes bombing thatched willages in Ethiopia. Good resume

of Italo-Bthiopian affair, so quiek- ly forgotten now that Spain is here.

Make Way for a Lady—Ann Shir- ley and Herbert Marshall-wasted on a story of a girl who spends her life matech-makine for her widowed father—and then picks the wrong one. Silly.

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“Three Women,” that great Rus- sion picture, and a worthy suc- cessor to “The Road of Life,’ will be showing at the Plaza Theatre for two days only, Monday and Tuesday, December 28 and 29. This film has been written up in these columns in previous issues, but to those who have not yet seen this picture we recommend it as the best picture Showing in Vancouver during the holiday week.

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