t} t x = i ‘with its own bourgeoisie. —MARX. The proletatriat of each country 'must first of all settle matters i B.C. WoRKERS’ EW Fight for Repeal of Section 98 and Against Frame-up of Slave Camp Strike Leaders! Published Weekly VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1935 Single Copies: 5 Cents ——— Ss No. 29 ' VOL. I PROTEST AGAINST | Lives Of Seamen Are Endangered By | 5 I a VANCOUVER, July 31. Scab Stowed Cargo )trikers Firm with Backs to the Wall — United Support will Defeat Shipping Federation — “The S.S. ‘Kine Edward’ ) oaded lumber here with scabs from June 11 to 26, the day ~ she was to sail. She was then held up by Lloyd’s agent, ~ and not allowed to sail until an eight degree list was recti- ‘-educed to two degrees. ied. After working the rest of that day the list had been The derricks which had been stowed for sea were ordered raised. Upon this being done =) he ship took a list back again to seven degrees. The ship vas then ordered to unload the cargo and re-stow it. She *¥vas still working late yesterday.’’—Strike Bulletin. a < rf Mysterious Collision The above account of the loadine earge by scabs happened on this at. What about all the others? Poyd's agent cannot possibly cover e whole waterfront of the ports Strike. The Shipping Federation © determined to break the strike, » matter how many lives are lost. > the truth were known, it would | doubt brine to light some starit- '= facts of the collision of the hliiagara,’ which was hushed up. > United Action Needed Now ©The striking -longshoremen and sumen are fightine with their backs © the wall. Mass arrests are takojne e.ce. Strike relief is wholly inade- pate to give the families of the ikers decent food and ordinary re- Hrements. The City will not give “@-m relief There is only one way : { rkers. ae ft for the strikers. That way lies @ mass support by the rest of the Tf this strike is lost, then sry union will suffer. The line-up labor unions in BC. can defeat }> Shippins Federation plans if bited action is taken now. Miners, -gers, fishermen, men and women i youth in labor organizations, 'ir organized power is needed. Put Pinto action. Back up the water- ~ nt workers now and help to de- » t the powerful shipping barons. UNIONS REFUSE TO EXPEL REDS Uniens Reject Call Of Trade Union Congress LONDON, England, July (ALP)—Two of England's and strongest unions have rejected a call from the Trade Union Con- Sress executive to expel Commun- 17.— largest ists. = At a recent conyention of the Na- tional Union of Railwaymen, whose membership numbers around 400.- bul, delesates voted 44 to 35 to re- gect a demand from Trade Union Congress headquarters that no Gom- munists be allowed to hold official positions in the Wnion. Shortly before that the Locomotive Engineers’ Union rejected the same order on the ground that it throttled the democratic movement of the trade unions. i.C.F. Prov. Convention "lasterpiece of Evasion’ ’ Declare Progressive Delegates TANCGUVER, July 29.— Arnold » bster was elected president of the Povincial Council of the C.C_E. at »ir convention held here yester- 'r. Two hundred and twenty dele- heS were Seated. A platform dec- Mation brought in was declared a asterpiece of evasion’ by pro- @ ssive delesates. The convention Bused to read a letter from the mmunist Party on recommenda- e. of the Executive. The motion @ read it was put, and lost. The beressive group in the convention 'nbered around seventy. ) fot discussion arose on the ques- no of clubs affiliating with the Sague Against War and Fascism. fis also was turned down by a vote ® two to one. Internal disagrec- Ents became manifest on discus- Pn on this question. E. E. Winch, Pding- the proeressives for unity yh the rest of the workers in the @ht against fascism and war. Motions Defeated \mone the defeated motions the lowing are to be noted: ) wire J. S. Woodsworth calling on him to insure not fewer than 200 eandidates in the Domunion elec- ion. instruct the executive to set up tS own press organ owned by the novement, or to set up 2 commit- see to control the policy of “The /Sommonwealth.” ' permit local C.C.F. clubs to affili- ate with the League against War and Fascism; they may only co- perate. permit a letter from the Com- munist Party to be read. endorse a “United Front” she Communist Party. “fnstitutionalize’’ the lives of par- damentary representatives during their stay in the seats of govern- ment by requiring them to live in 2 €.C.F. house under disciplinary tontrol. ! ask youth to sign a pledge re- ‘usine military service. ‘limit the pay or indemnity of a o-€.E. parliamentary member. endorse a resolution that the “CF. parliamentary members ajave, by their vacillating policy, ost the confidence of the rank and ‘ile and should be replaced. with -OWEHLL RIVER, July 22.—All ief hitherto given to strikers will cut off, according to Corporal rdman, of the Provincial Police, 0 has been appointed investigator relief, a job that is new to this vi, Opposes The Rising Tide KNIGHTHOOD FOR LOYAL SERVANTS LONDON, July 12—A storm of anger and protest has been aroused amone the workers over the accept- ance of knighthoods by the two lead- ers of the trade union movement, Sir Walter Citrine and Sir Arthur Pugh. The bestowal of “honors” by the reactionary Wational government is for services rendered to capitalism, and followed closely upon the issu- anee of the Black Circular orderm¢e the splitting of the working class front by excluding Communist dele- fates to trades councils and from official] positions in the unions. Resolutions are pouring into the head office of the Trade Union Con- 2ress demanding the expulsion of Citrine and Pugh from the trade union movement, while the instruc- tions in the Black Circular are be- ing turned down by many unions. DUMB COP HIT THE RIGHT GUY He’ll Be a Sergeant Some Day! NORTH VANCOUVER, July 31.— Proyincial police here have become real dictators. They have ordered the striking longshoremen to refrain from picketting in more than twos, and ~Sergeant Kelly says “he has orders to keep pickets from walking on Esplanade Ave. (overlooking the waterfront) day or night.”’ Today, there were six scabs got in an argument with some of the pick- ets. Provincial bulls came a rush- ing in cars and motorcycles. One of them jumped out of his car, and before anyone Could look around he walloped a man to the ground. He never stopped to ask whether the man was a scab or a striker. HE WAS A SCAB! No Objection Raised—Carried. The scab got to his knees, but the bull piled into him again. WNo- body objected, so the bull had it his own way. The result was, the scab was carried into the Palace Hotel (rendezvous of seabs) and a doctor called. No doctor wanted to come for a long time. When the cop found out he had made a mistake, he apologized, but it didn’t do the scab any good. Bob Julian was arrested after the fracas. The scab’s name is Walter Smart. LATER.—Two pickets were driven on to the ferry and told to stay in Vancouver, by Sergeant Kelly, this afternoon. Kelly said, “If you guys come back to the picket line, you'll be clubbed on Sight.’’ = couyver. United States Naval Planes in battle formation at the recent “Prepare the people for war”? Air Pageant staged in Van- —Courtesy Vancouver Sun. Mother Saves Youth Scabbed to Buy A Couple of Shirts VICTORIA, B.G.. July 29:— At noon today a hearty cheer was baised by the picket line at the docks of this city as a mother brought her Son off the dock where scabs were working. When asked by a picketer Why he had scabbed, the youth re- plied, “I hayen’t got a shirt to my name.”’ There are a number of young men doing scab work in Vic- toria who have had no trade union experience. It is a general practice with the Strikers to speak to these young fel- lows whenever possible and convince them of thé injury that scabbine does to workers. Bosses Prey on Youngsters. Bspecially susceptible to the temptation of scabbine are the stu- dents who have sraduated from the hish schools of the province and are now looking around with futility for some sort of work to keep them out of the relief camps. They are an easy prey for the unprincipled bosses who find them willing tools to thwart organized labor, due to their lack of understanding of the workers’ cause. Wow you young fellows who are scabbing, or who are goin= to scab, Stand back and take a look at your= self, is it worth while to seab for the sake of the money and be dis- pised by your fellow-workers for the rest of your lives? The shipping bosses are using the Jocal police station for a seab- recruiting depot and the recruits are escorted to work by the police. Extra Charges Levied. The SS. Bonnington Court, arriv- ing in B. GC. ports after the lJons- Shoremen’s strike commenced here, had a heavy consignment of carzo for a Victoria merchant. When in- formed of the extra charges levied, due to the strike, he refused to ac- cept the goods, These extra charges were introduced to cover the cost of maintaining the scabs necessary to work the ships in the absence of the regular longshoremen. The ship- ping bosses, however, are meeting with opposition from: the wholesal- ers and small merchants who have to pay this added expense. Son From Scabbing; Pickets Cheer O POLICE CONTINUE TERRGRIST RAIDS PRINCETON, July 29—Six work- ers’ homes in this fascist-ridden company town have been raided by the Liberal Pattullo’s Provincial Po- lice thugs during: the weel. This is by no means an unusual occurrence. There exists a dictator- Ship of Provincial Police amounting almost to martial Jaw. Mflolestation of workers’ homes, intimidation, ter- ror, franie-up and imprisonment of workers have been common occur- renees for a lone period. Police state that as lone as “The Worker’ and the “B.C. Workers’ News” are brought into the town, homes will continue to be raided. Single Men Demonstrate Protest Against Limit Of 26 Restaurants For Food VANCOUVER, July 29. — Wour hundred single men demonstrated at the Hamilton Hall today demanding that the ban on certain restaurants be lifted. The cafes not allowed to cater to the single workers on re- lief are just as good as those ap- proved by the authorities. The workers affected sent a resolution of protest to the Victoria zovernment. Prices Going Up. Those restaurants which are classified as “approved” are now be= sinning to do as the relief recipi- ents Stated they would. They are raising their prices and reducing the quality of the food. Mr. Thompson at the Hamilton Hall relief office promised to make representations to the provincial government. The res- taurant keepers are as much inter- ested as the workers affected. The graft that has been uncovered in the past in connection with relief in this city compels the workers to come to the conclusion that there is Something smelly about this too. or WA R AUG. 4 British Gov't Plot To Bomb Moscow From Nazi Air Bases; Secret Agreement With Hitler Down Under Prepares War Doubles Appropriations Of a Decade Age MELBOURNE, July 25.— Aus- tralia will add <£6,734,150 (about 333,661,000) to its national defense budget for 1935-36, Robert Archdale Parkhill, minister of national de- fense, announced on Monday. The programme will go even far- ther for 1936-37, Mr. Parkhill said, when another £400,000 (about $1,940,- 000) will be added, making Aus- tralia’s defense budget for 1936-37 twice the size that it was in 1932-33. The amounts placed at the dis- Position of national defense will be employed in modernization and in_ crease of the fleet, mechanization of the army and in Strensthening; of the air force by formation of new Coastal defense squadrons. ‘STOOL WAS KNOWN HERE As An Undercover Man He Was a Failure Last week the B.C. Worliers News printed an account of the evidence given at the Regina trial of the camp strike leaders by a R.C.M-P. stool called Graham. We are in receipt of the follow - ing letter from the Communist Party in B.C. which enlightens us as to the position of this man’s ac- tivities in the labor movement in B.C. We are printing the main part of the letter, which reads as follows: - “Constable Leland Graham, R.G MM. P. undercover man, who is givine evidence at Resina against the lead- ers of the camp boys’ Strike, has stated that he was ‘Investigatine=’ Communists in Wancouyer for two and a half years. “He is telling the truth. There are Communists in Vancouver who knew of his activities and his where- abouts. He was watched by Com- munists. He lived at the corner of Pender and Burrard Streets. He was not active in any phase of the labor movement. He was never elected to any official position in any labor or- fanization. Considered Too Stupid “He was considered too stupid to be elected to any committee or any delegation. He never got any in- formation about the- labor move- ment that the ordinary policeman or man on the street does not know. He will be unable to give any evi- dence about the labor movement in B.C. that is not openly printed in the papers issued by labor organiza- tions and by the Communist Party for public consumption. It being conceded on all sides that another world war is being prepared it is well to recall the years of the last world war and the people who supported it. Tor years before the launching of the 1914-18 war, there were any number of people who declared themselves opposed to and pledged to oppose any and al] such imperial- ist wars. The great Social-Demo- eratie parties of Europe had pledged themselves in the Basle and other resolutions to oppose imperialist war by means of the general strike, and by any other means available. But these were only words, deceptive words, for when the Kaiser and the ruling caste called upon them they responded to the bourgeois battle- ery, ‘defend fhe fatherland,” by voting war credits and supporting the war in every way. The Labor Party of Great Britain did likewise, and even sent Hender- son, the present leader of the party into the war cabinet, while the party and the reactionary trade union leaders signed ‘‘truces’’ with the capitalist coalition government for the duration of the war. The big leaders of the American Federation of Labor, that readily supported the murderer Wiuilson’s war programme, and became the most vicious hounders and jailors of all workers who opposed the war. The Tom Moores and Jimmy Simp- sous of Canada also betrayed their } Intellectuals Whipped Up War Fever In 1914-18 class and their principles—if they ever had any—and whooped it up for the murder of one set of work- ers by another. But what of the pacifists, and a 5) Anti-War Programme for Vancouver Assemble at Cambie St. Grounds, Sunday, Aug. 4, at 2 p.m.—March to Alexandria Park Short Speeches will be delivered by the following: Rev. James W. Melvin, D.D., Pastor of Crosby United Church Mrs. A. B. Delmage of League of Nations Society Rey. J. W. Smith Pastor of Highland United Church, Edmonton, Alta. Mr. Malcolm Bruce Labor Editor Mr. BE. BGreftfit of Canadian League Against War and Fascism Mr. A. M. Stephen of the CCF. Rev. A. E. Whitehouse Pastor of Chown United Church Rey. James Banks Pastor of African Methodist Episcopal Church Speakers Representing Ex-Ser- vicemen, Longshoremen, Trade Union Action ommittee X : —J) particularly the pacifist followers of the Prince of Peace? The churches, headed by the clergy, ever the tools of the oppressing class although pro- fessing to be champions of the down- trodden, and enemies of war, became a slavish, hypocritical and blood- thirsty adjunct of the war offices of their