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Trades Council Backs Burns Strikers

West Sending 50 Delegates To Montreal

Youth Meet

Five Delegrates From BC to Attend Youth

Congress

By JOHN 1 BOYD

Offices of the Canadian Youth Council, both in Toronto and in Montreal, are humming with activ- ity these days.

Circulars and letters are being prepared and mailed out, credentials are pouring in from youth clubs and associations all over the coun- try, youne men and women are rushing in and out of the offices with questions or information as to what they or their clubs can do are doing for the big Canadian Youth Congress scheduled to take place in Montreal during the holiday week-end of May 22, 23 and 24.

Volunteers are busy from early morning until late evening eettine Qut the vast amount of material re- quired by the more than 1,000 dele- Sates who will be present,

All this activity will be climaxed at the historie congress where once again Canada’s youth will gather to deliberate and decide how best if can work in unity for the better- ment of its lot and the preserva- tion of peace.

An indication of the wide inter- est this second congress has aroused amone young people of the domin- ion may be gathered from the size of the delegations expected from vari- ous parts of the country.

The Maritimes are expected to have about 10 delegates. Quebec will have anywhere between 700 and $00 delegates, more than 500 of whom will be French-Canadians. Ontario expects close to 500 dele- fates, with about 200 of them com- ing from Toronto and suburbs and the rest from the many. localities in seuthem Ontario and the mining centres of the north.

Frem the west will be going a Contingent of over 50 delegates, the

majority of whom have been elected ,

at local and provincial conferences representing large numbers of youne people between Lake Su- perior and the Pacifie coast.

From BC John Stanton, John Jopson and Lois Anderson are of ficial delegates to the Congress, while Neil Ross, representing Pro- Vineial Recreation Centres, and Maurice Rush, Young Communist League, will also attend.

Italian Artists Thrown In Jail

MILAN, 20—Some twenty-five younz artists were arrested here, for showing their sympathy for Republican Spain. The painters

Italy, May

Trolli, Mucchi and WNallu are in prison, as is also the sculptor Manzu. The arrest of these men

has aroused considerable feeling in the artistic circles of Milan.

NEW YORK.—(FP)—Hans Goepel, 26-year-old anti-Nazi refugee held for deportation, has been released from Ellis Island on a $500 bail bond. A. Socialist of partly Jewish extraction, Goepel escaped Germany as a stowaway to escape arrest and imprisonment by the Nazis

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CIO Has Made The Workers Articulate

—Hillman

NEW YORK, May. 20.— (UNS)— Talk about the CIO promoting dic- tatorship was dismissed as ‘‘wild talk”’ and a “childish notion” by Sid- ney Hillman, chairman of the Tex- tile Workers’ Organizing Commit- tee of the CIO, speaking before the Economic Club here.

“Far from promoting dictatorship, the CIO is tending to make dic- tatorship impossible by making the rank and file of working people articulate,”’ he said.

“Whatever tends to improve the conditions of the masses of the people tends to make dictatorship impossible. Only when people be- Come desperate and hopeless will they give up their democratic rights. Dictatorship is the last re- Sort of the hopeless. Hiliman declared aim of the COI is ment of a progressively standard of livine.’’ “Employers who resist the legiti- mate aspirations of their employes,

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on the other hand, who answer labor organization with violence and repression, and who force

sweatshop conditions on their em- ployes, are the people who are mak- ing dictatorship possible. in the United States,” he said.

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Loyalists Are Continuing Advance on Many Fronts

By MILLY BENNETT WALENCIA, Spain, May 20.— (FP)—Propaganda to the effect that Russians were invading Spain and: that all women had been slaughtered in Loyalist ter- ritory was spread by Fascists among the Jlong-_besieged civil guards and their families atop the almost inaccessible mountain Sanctuary of Santa Maria de la Cabeza in the Cordoba area. Wow that the besieged finally have surrendered after an intensive gov- ernment radio campaign assuring them that their lives would be spared, details of the terrible suf- fering they underwent have been revealed.

One of the guards declared: ‘We were terrified about the reds and thought all women had been

Slaughtered. We are astonished by the kind treatment we are receiving and amazed to see hundreds of Ital- iam prisoners here in the same

prison. We had no idea what it is all about. We were told we were fight- ing Russians, and since the govern- ment technique with tanks was so Sood we thought they must be Russians. We realize that we were misled, that the Spaniards are on this side.

Italians Defeated On Bermeo Coast

~Qn the Madrid front, rebels trapped at University City tried

desperately to re-establish communi- eations with their main forces. They attempted to dig a tunnel under the Manzanares river, but found it im- ossible because of quicksand. When a section advocated surrendering, fighting among themselyes broke out.

The government reconquest of Carabanechel continues, and several rebel strongholds were recently dynamited.

On the Guadalajara front, goyvern- ment aviation is active, numerous

rebel trains being destroyed by bombs recently. The electric plant at Toledo has been mined and de- Stroyed, and MLoyalists have ad-

vanced on the Motril front.

Qn the northern front, the situa- tion at Bilbao was at its gravest at the end of April, but improved in the early days of May. The rebels have masses of men and materials, but the Basques are putting up stiff and determined resistance, inflict- ing heavy casualties on rebel forces. On the Bermeo coast, three bat- talions of the Italian Black Arrow regiment fled, and two tanks and numerous machinegsuns and other supplies were captured. This is the third defeat of these unwilling Ital- ian conscripts, the first being at Guadalajara, the second at Cordoba. oner.

After the sinking of the rebel battleship Espana off Santander by republican fliers, documents and

German newspapers found floating on the water gave evidence that German officers had been aboard.

WASHINGTON, May 20.—(FP)— George I. Berry, president of Labor’s WNon-Partisan League and

of the International Pressmen’s union, has taken the US senate seat left vacant by the death of Senator Nathan Bachman (D., Tenn.).

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MOSCOW, USSR, May 20.—Mrs. CCF in British Columbia and delegate representing women’s organiza- tions of that province with the Canadian delegation now touring the Soviet Union, stated here after a visit of delegates to President Michael

Mrs. Kerr Expresses Hope For Unity In Elections

BE. Kerr, prominent member of the

Kalinin: @ =1 “wish that ail progressive > parties in British Columbia could Maj. Berry Takes have listened to this straight-for- US Senate Seat ward commonsense, and answering its logic, weld themselves together

in the face of the coming provincial election.”

She was referring to an appeal for unity of all progressive-minded people around vital, pressing issues made by the chairman of the Cen- tral Executive Committee of the USSR in a recent speech.

Stated Mrs. Kerr: “I am amazed at the inspiring progress being made by the Soviet Union.”

Loyalists Consolidate Recent Gains One Third of Shells

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Quiepo de Llano Insults Dean in Radio Broadcast

TED ALLAN MADRID, Spain, May 20.— (FP)—AIll military and political news in Spain was suddenly eclipsed by the hub-bub caused by the torpedoing of the British de- Stroyer Hunter off Almeria. The event created a major sensation

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In Spain. Military observers’ expressed the view that the repercussions may

affect the future of the war, depend- ing on the outcome of the British consul’s report and investigation.

The government's statement that there are no mines in Almeria har- bor discounts the hypothesis that the destroyer struck a mine.

In spite of the fact that more than:20 people were killed in week- end shellings and the cruel barrage Which central districts of Madrid have suffered, main topie of dis- cussion remains the torpedoing.

The question on the tip of every- one’s tongue is: ‘‘What will Britain do now?”

This correspondent had an inter- esting conversation with an Ameri- can machine-gunner on leave in Madrid for dental treatment. He Said:

“Maybe now Britain will stop dis- cussing; and act. If she doesn’t tell Hitler and Mussolini where to get off, her prestige is lost.”

This American's statement re- flects general feeling throughout Spain. The torpedoing is believed to be especially significant in view of Italy’s strained relations With Bri- tain, which found expression in re- calling Italian reporters from the Coronation and banning certain papers from Italy.

General Miaja, Loyalist com- mander, told the press that the fact that the Hunter was hit at the waterline outside the harbor proves beyond doubt that it was torpedoed.

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Shells Duds

I saw blood washed off Madrid Streets again Tuesday. But the sig- nificant feature of the shelling is that a third of the shells were duds.

It is the opinion of observers that armament workers in Fascist coun- tries are deliberately making duds So as not to harm fellow-workers in Spain. Tuesday’s high percentage seems to bear this out.

Hundreds of shells fell into the centre of the city, and many of them. did explode, killing and wounding’ an untold number. Seven shells scored a direct hit on the Central hotel. Brown acrid smoke hides the sky for blocks as TI write these lines.

All Arms

To Front MADRID, sovernment’s

May 20.—(FP)—The decree taking all arms from the rear-suard in line with the slogan: “All arms to the front,” is unanimously lauded by Socialists, Communists, Republicans and _ the CNT and UGT trade union federa-

tions. The campaign against the “uncontrollables”’ continues, as Loyalist parties react to the Bar-

celona incidents .These have caused increased faith that unity of the Popular Front will enable the war to be won. Barcelona incidents have

had a strong sobering influence back of the lines by emphasizing the danger of any break in unity

of anti-Fascist forces.

Fascist General Insults Dean

MADRID, May 20.—(FP)—The dean of Canterbury’s plain words about Fascist terrer in Spain

evoked typical insults from General Queipo dé Llano, rebel general of the microphone.

“This archbishop or dean or what- ever he calls himself is nothing more than a damned idiot and a miserable fiend,’ the general said in one of his daily broadcasts. The dean, Dr. Hewlett Johnson. one of the highest figures in the English established church, has been investi-

gatin= conditions in Spain.

Ore anized Labor

Pledges Support

Committee Set Up This Week to Raise Financial

Support; Burns Products Definitely Placed on Unfair List

Decisive action was taken by Vancouver and New West-

Here’s Ernst Hanfstaengle, once a friend of Hitler, now exiled in London.

200 Officers Tried For Mutiny

PARIS ,Ffrance, May 20—Infor- mation received here from reliable sources in Italy testifies to the fact that the internal situation in that country is becoming acute.

The defeat of the Italian expedi- tionary forces at Guadalajara has made a tremendous impression on all sections of the population, in- cluding the army. There is deep Giscontent in the army regarding the aid that Italy is rendering Gen- eral Franco, and more than 200 army officers are now on trial for refusing to go to Spain. Three of-

ficers are said to have been shot in prison before the trial, while 200 men of a regiment which mutinied when ordered to Spain

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One informant alleges that even General Terucci, who was recently in Spain, has been recalled to Rome and placed under arrest, while Gen- eral Bergonzoli, who was held per- sonally responsible for the Guada- lajara defeat, disappeared- shorily after his return to Italy. Anti-Fas- cists in Rome frankly suggest that he was shot.

There was an impressive stration of workers recently in Sestri Ponente, near Genoa, where three workers were shot and hun- dreds arrested. The peasants have also been active in a number of places. In Cagliari, in Sardinia, tne peasants set fire to the headquar- ters of the Fascist party.

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Philip Murray, Steel Workers’ tee has announced.

On The CIO FRONT

Steel PITTSBURGH, Pa. — (UNS) —A of the 540,000 steel work- in the US are now organized,

chairman of the Organizing Commit-

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Wow enrolled in some 600 lodges are 325,000 steel workers; and SW

OC contracts have been signed with

90 companies, including all of the subsidiaries of the giant US Steel Corporation, and such important independent concerns as Wheeling Steel Corporation, Timken Roller Bearing, Caterpillar Tractor and McKeesport Tin Plate.

This sensational showing in an industry of which it was once said that it ‘‘can never be unionized”’’ was also marked by the gradual wiping out of the last remnants of company unionism—a particular line of attack by the SWOC through- out the campaign.

TORONTO, Ont. — (FP)—Almost 1,000 steel workers joined the Amal- gamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers in April, according to The Metal Worker. The organiza- tion now has 2,000 members in To- ronto, and a drive is on to get 4,000 members by the end of May. Organ- ization is well advanced at General Steel Wares, Dominion Wheel, In- ternational Metal Industries, Cana- dian Aeme Screw & Gear, Beath's Limited, and a number of subsidiary factories.

Transport

NEW YORK.—(FP)—Renouncing their affiliation with the American Federation of Labor, 25,000 New York City traction workers, mem- bers of the Transport Workes' Union, fomerly a division of the International Association of Machin- ists, have voted to join the Commit- tee for Industrial Organization. Or- ganized three years ago as an in- dependent union, it became an IAM lodge 18 months ago.

WASHINGTON. (EP) The Transport Workers’ Union of Amer- ica, to have jurisdiction over all workers employed “in or about pas- senger transportation facilities, ex- eluding steam railroad systems,” will be launched by the Committee for Industrial Organization.

Costigan On Relief Board

SEATTLE, Wash, May 20.—How- ard G. Costigan, executive director of the Washinston Commonwealth federation was named, subject to his acceptance, a member of the King county social security advisory board by a unanimous vote of the three county commissioners Mon- day.

The social security board was es- tablished to give the general pub- lie voice in the conduct of relief ad- ministration in Kine county.

Non Partisan League Is

New US

Political Force

WASHINGTON, DC, May 20—State organizations of Labor’s WNon-

Partisan League are entering a new

and permanent phase of existence,

it is shown by reports to Maj. George L. Berry, national president of

the League.

State by state, the units are pre- paring and adopting constitutions for permanent operation.

‘Carolina state organizations

New Wew York and North have adopted constitutions and are oper-

Jersey,

In national headquarters a model ating on a thoroughly organized constitution is being prepared, so | basis. that uniform provisions will govern In Florida a _ state constitution the operation of this amazingly ener-] is being formulated and, it is un- getic new movement in American | derstood, will be submitted to na- political life. tional headquarters in the near Maine was one of the first states] future.

to adopt a state constitution. Growth of the League in Maine has aston- ished old-time conservative political

leaders. Today the League in Maine is a solid, well organized. active or- ganization.

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minster Trades and Labor Council Tuesday to support locked- out employees of the P. Burns Company after delegates had heard Business Agent Douglas, local 95, sided agreement offered by Ens company. Action taken in-

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eluded definite placing of Burns’ products on the unfair list and elec- tion of a committee to raise funds to ensure union success in the strike, now in its fifth month.

After reading the company’s let- ter, in which an offer was made to take back 20 men and 5 women im- mediately and the rest “when busi- ness picked up,’ provided Burns’ products were placed on the fair list, Douglas told the council that it was believed representatives of the company went directly to the homes of 70 employees assuring each that he would be included in the first 25 to be reinstated.

Actually, said Douglas, the com- pany had done nothing but endeavor to overcome the union ban on its products. So effective had been this ban due to conscientious ~ co-opera- tion by the public that the plant was now working at only 25 per cent of normal capacity.

A strong committee was named by President Colin McDonald to rally support behind the strikers and secure financial assistance for them.

Prestes Trial Cruel Farce

20. —{(FP)— leader of the Allianee, and

NEW YORK, Luis Carlos Prestes, Wational Liberation Arthur Ewart, former Reichstag deputy, charged with leading the 1935 revolt in Brazil, have been sen- tenced to 16 years and 8 months and 13 years and 4 months imprison- ment respectively, by special tribu-

May

nals, according to word reaching here. “The men will be sent to the

lonely penal colony in Matto Grasso, ~

the heart of Brazil's fearful jungle,” according to Dayid Gevinson, noted labor attormmey who recently visited Brazil. “The entire proceedings were a eruel farce and a mockery of jus- tice. Raul Machado, the presiding Judge, said: ‘It is not necessary, in order to condemn the extremists, to submit proofs. The judges will de- cide according to their own opin- ions’.””

New Election

For Iceland

REYERJAVIE, Iceland, May 20.— In consequence of the withdrawal of the Socialist collaboration with the Progressives in the Icelandic zov- ernment, Premier M. Jonasson has dissolved the Athline.

Ney elections have been called for June 20.

Total national ‘‘wealth’’ of- Ice- land is estimated at about $50 mil- lion. Of this $50 million, 5,000 peo- ple possess $25 million. $25 million is owed to foreign capital. Average income of a worker is $300 a year.

Most branches of Icelandic pro- duction are dominated by British capital. The leader of the Socialist Party is a director on the Iceland board of British Petroleum. The government must not obtain any new loan without permission of Great Britain.

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