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ANNOUNCEMENT At the dance of the U.L.F-T.A. in aid of that organization on Sept. 21 the first prize of a suit of clothes rkers’ Kids’ Gym Opposed By Bosses By Special Correspondent was won by ticket No. B28. The INCE! GEORGE, B.C., Sept. 18. | second. for a pair of shoes, valued ‘© hundred Kiddies were enrolled | at $5.00, was No. A413. yembers of the Mree Gymnasium sored by the Workers’ Organiza- )aere When opposition developed fhe opponents of the militant vers. move has been made to con- thought to the welfare of the kid- dies until we workers started the gym. More and more workers are becoming wise to the exploiters in this area and the workers’ gym will “es Princess Theatre into a continue to do good work among the Jers Hailes by the oppositionists i Pers f£ the anti- Spreadine the “‘Red’ bogey | children regardless oO ; ee Kiddies’ parents. working class tactics of the enemies fs Same people never gaye one | of labor. ; tt ie ‘ Connnunicis Strive for a United Front Anti- Capitalist Vote $y Special Correspondent PRINCE GEORGE, B:G. Sept. 18: —Members of the Communist Party here appealed at a business meeting of the €.C.F_ to their miembers for a united front in the election. After one hours discussion, the question was tabled until the candidate ar- rived back in town. When the candidate arrived he is- sued a statement expressing the view that nothing could be done. He presented us with the same views as expressed by Woodsworth. Candidate’s Confused Notions The GC candidate stated that CCF Candidate In Pr. Geo. Rejects CP Offer Of Unity © “ai the: united front was formed it would seare a great number of the members of the @C/C1". back to the old line parties.” He further stated that “he stands just as 200d 2a ehance without our support as with it” and then asked, “Why should the Communists run a candidate against Heaps if you really want unity?” Will Continue Struggle For ‘ Unity Communists are continuine to at- tempt to convince the members of the ©: CE. of the ereat need for uniting in the €lection, as there are three out-and-out capitalist party candidates running in the election here and without unity in this dis- trict, it will be @ cineh that one of the capitalist party candidates will be elected. Veritable ‘‘Niagara’’ Of Boos and Jeers Rouses Premier’s Ire CALLS FOR POLICE Multi- Millionaire Despot Displays Hatred of Working Class R. B. Bennett once again resorted to Iron Heel methods to spill his campaign slop over the people of Vancouver. The old reactionary who instituted forced Jabor under military control, and was responsible for the murderous police attack on peaceful Slave camp workers and citizens in Resina was shown how he is detested by the common people. Old Hunmbus Gets Peevish When he rose to speak he was jeered and booed to the echo by thousands who have suffered as a result of his administration. It soon became clear that he would not be allowed to speak unless something drastic was done. And at Bennett's own request it was done. The armed forces of the state were called upon. His ego deflated, petulant, and later enraged, he exhibited a vile and ugly temper. Provolkes Rioting Hiding behind the protection of hundreds of police, the cowardly old boor insulted his tormentors, used the display of the people’s hatred of him to justify Section 98, called the hecklers “‘hoodlums,” ‘‘denizens of the zoo,’’ and endeayored to start a riot which would give an excuse for blood spilling on the Regina plan, when he-called upon citizens in the audience to forcibly throw the heck- lers out. Fortunately for the Ben- @ nett dupes in the audience, R. B. Bennett Greeted With Viass Resentment At Arena they did not try at. Whines for Police After 20 minutes had passed, dur- ing which he could not speak at all because of the uproar, he demanded that the police get busy. And they did. The hundreds of them who were scattered all over the hall be- gan ejecting anyone who opened his mouth, Then a mass walkout took place; and by the time Bennett was half- way through his: diatribe, at lenst 6000 people had left the Arena. He finished his speech to a cold and unappreciative, shrunken audience. Stale Stuff As for the speech itself—it con- sisted of the usual campaign tripe— yapping= about tariffs, mariets; bragging about how much “we’’ were exporting (of commodities that the people of Canada sorely need and which should be kept in the country to supply their needs), demagogic claptrap about ‘this sreat Canada of ours,” and so on, ad nauseum. Sorry Lot of “Yes-men” He was very easy on Mackenzie King, and did not mention his close eolleasue for many years, Harry Stevens, which can be interpreted as not wishing to discredit them too much in view of the possibility of his needing them to form a national government. The Tory candidates for the Van- couver constituencies and one or two others were on the platform be- hind Bennett and were a silly look- ine lot. Bennett never once even referred to them. Grote Sterling, Bennetts ‘yes- man’ Minister of National Defense, the department having control over the Slave Camps, was announced as the first speaker, but he couldn’t be heard at all. He droned along, wholly inaudible in the uproar, for his allotted half hour. Remember King’s Deeds The Liberal Government Was Just as Much a War Government as Is the Present One To show the relationship of war to the welfare of the people of Canada as considered by the King Government, we publish the appro- priations made by that government for the “welfare” of the common people of Canada out of the taxes they wrung out of the labor, so that you can judge whether you should SEP ere a Liberal candidate, and why candidates. you should aA CS os Items Passed by the King Liberal Gov’t x support Progressive .C.F. and Gommunist Department of Health. Salaries.) ooo ees $190,000.00 Contingencies ....... 60,006.00 Quarantine, etc. ..... 200,060.00 Child Welfare ....... 5,000.00 Dental Council ...... 5,000.00 in 1928 Wenereal Diseases .. $100,000.00 Social Hygiene ...... 5,000.00 Tuberculosis Assn... 25,000.00 Mental Hygiene .... 10,600.00 Blind Institute ...... 5,000.00 rom the above it will be seen that the King Liberal Government appropriated 150 times more money to keep the war memorials and Sraves in good shape than they did for the poor blind people of Ganada or for Child Welfare. RELIEF WORKERS ASK FAIR WAGE Want Enough to Keep Families Healthy By Worker Correspondent VANCOUVER, Sept. 21. — A unanimous decision to request the city authorities for a minimum of fifteen days’ work per month on the basis of a seven-hour day at 50 cents an hour, wus made by the Waneouver Relief Workers’ Union at their business meetin= on Wednes- day, Sept. 18th. This would make a minimum of $52.50 a month for a man and wife, and would he in- creased accordinely where there are children and other dependents in the family. Relief Seale Totally Inadequate. The present scale is totally inade- quate, being worked for at the rate of 25 per cent over that siven in. direct relief. This rate works out to oniy half the amount which relict workers would earm under the Hf j teen days’ requested from the city. The union also decided that each relief project should have an elected grievance committee of four, imme- diately. A delegate was elected to at- tend the weekly meetine of the trade union committee that is supporting the waterfront lock-out. Hawthorne and Kinlock ‘were nominated as permanent chairman. The vote was 27 for the first named and 23 for Kinlock. Wext union meeting October 2nd, 8 pm.. Silver Slipper Hall. All members and those who are non- members engaged in relief work are asked to attend. ELECT MALCOLM BRUCE! FREE SPEECH: ON A PIG'S VALISE R.B.’s Bombastic Thun- der About Freedom Is Only For the Rich Air Belongs To Capitalists “No broadcasting station may broadeast any speech, printed mat- ter, program or advertising matter containing abusive or defamatory statements with regard to individ- uals or institutions or statements or suggestions contrary to the express purpose of any existing legislation ... ” The above is part of the Act of Parliament passed by the Bennett Government governing broadcasting over the radio. It declares in effect that no one is allowed to criticize the government over the radio. This is the nearest approach to Hitler’s restrictions of criticisms of the gov- ernment by Fasesm that one could imagine. Capitalists Stick Together It is not enforced when the Lib- erals or Steyens Party broadcast. It is only enforced when Communists und €.C.Iers. who are really out to expose the capitalist and show the common people how they are robbed by the Capitalist Governments. The method of barring the Com- munists in B.C. from the radio is carried out the same way as work- ers are blacklisted and unable to get a job when they stand up in de- fense of workers’ rights. Communists Are Feared Most. All of the radio stations in Van- couver have barred Communists from broadcasting; that is, they have agreed to allow a speech to be broadeast, but when they find out that it is the Communist BPlection Committee who are sponsoring the broadeast they invariably say, “Sorry, we are full up.” PRINCE GEORGE WORKER KILLED By Special Correspondent PRINCE GEORGE, B.C., Sept. 18: —G. Winka ,well known worker and agent for the B.C. Workers News in this district, was killed yesterday morning by a freight train while trying to board it west of Prince George. This worker, who was active in the revolutionary working class movement, was always ready to take up the fight against the system that eompels workers to take chances of death in the struggle to secure a job. Wis death is a great loss to the workers’ cause. ELECT MALCOLM BRUCE! shouting, FIFTEEN HUNDRED STRIKE AT FRASER VALLEY HOP FIELDS Women Ath Babies Tied On Their Backs Toil For 6c an Hour VILE SANITATION B.C. Liberal Government Isnores Workers’ Tele- gram; Sends Police SARDIS B-C., Sept. 21.—Resolute- ly refusing to continue worlsing for six to ten cents per hour, prac- tically all of the 1500 hop pickers employed here on the Haas farm forced the company on Sunday to provide transportation to their homes in the Fraser Valley after be- ine brutally told by the owners of the farm who live in Oregon, U.S.A that no more than two cents per pound would be paid for labor. Indeseribable conditions of living. under slave wages, are responsible for the strikes which take place year after year on this farm. Three holes- in-the-sround toilets for 500 men, at which there is a continual Jine- up, the same kind going for the women workers. Cabins unsanitary with old dirty straw for bunks. Women With Gabes There. At two cents per pound for poor gerade hops, which were hard to picl, women with babies in arms tried desparately to earn a few cents. Barefoot children. some crawling on the wet sround,- are commonplace sights on the Haas farm. Some of the women burst out crying when the strikers demand for four cents was turned down, At 7:15 a.m. on Saturday, a woman picker who had a sick child in the hospital rushed across the field “BEveryone quit.” The cry like wild fire over the whole and by 8 a.m. a meeting of 1500 was in progress in the centre of the farm, including all the Jap- anese workers. Liberal Govt. Ignore Strikers. An elected strike committee sent a delegzation of ten to the manager, who had by this time phoned to @regon, receiving the answer, “‘Not a fraction of a cent raise.’’ This Was met with a unanimous vote to strike and stick to the shacks. Picket lines were organized and notices of the strike were sent to Vancouver. A telegram was sent to Pearson. Minister of Labor, in Victoria, de- manding= an immediate investigation of working and livine conditions on the Haas farm. Wo answer was fortheominge from Victoria. Food shortage was immediately felt and the strike committee organ- ized a collection in Chilliwack on Saturday nicht. Police Help the Boss. The provincial police arrived in three cars and endeayored to intimi- went farm Y date moss most active. The police sergeant was tackled by the strike committee as to their presence and the whole body of strikers could plainly see that it was for the com- pany use that the police were sent. The factthat starvation faced the strikers, determined the calling off of the strike, but no one went baci to work and the company had no other recourse than to provide trans- portation. Old time hop pickers de- clared their intention of winnins better conditions on this farm next year. A balance of $12.46 collected by the women folk wus unanimously voted to be turned over to the Jocked-out Vancouver waterfront workers. This was acknowledged in the daily bulletin of the loneshore- men_ RHODESIA HAS LEGAL FLOGGING BRITISH POLICY Italy wants to exploit the natural resources and the native population of Ethopia. Every worker should oppose this policy with all the power at their command. We should not forget in doing so that Britain is not concerned with protecting the native population of India as pro- tectinge the interests of Gritish Im- perialists and their rights to exploit them. How this is done can be seen when we review British policy in Rho- desa. This is one of the British selfi-governed dominions, so called. In that land there is a Jaw in oper- ation called the Nalive Juveniles Act, which permits the floggzine of native boys on complaint of their owner, or if the government official considers they have refused to obey him in any particular. THOMPSON INSULT AGAINST LABOR VANCOUVER, Sept. 24. — Prom- inently featured in a Liberal election advertisement in the ‘Province’? as “prominent labor worker,’ James Thompson, delegate to the Vancou- ver Trades and Labor Couneil from the pile drivers’ union has definitely lined up with the parties of capital ism. Thompson is a member of the Board of Industrial Relations of B.C., having been appointed to this sine- cure by the Pattullo Zovernment, and in return, he helps his benefac- tors by endeavoring to put the face of labor on the reactionary policies of the Liberal regime. For a seven-hour day and a five-day week! HITLER’S AGENTS MAKE SECRET TRIP VANCOUVER. Sept. 21.—Major E. A. Roth, Hitler's minister of avia- tion, along with two other German fascist leaders, stepped from the C-P.R. train from the east this morn- ing and went right aboard the RMS. Empress of Russia, bound for Japan. They refused to speak to anyone and this gave rise to many surmises. Class conscious workers know that such emissaries of fascism can only. Carry Sinister plans to the Japanese imperialists, to further consolidate fascist terror against the working cass. URITY SOUGHT © IN VAN. CENTRE Communists’ Appeal Is Rejected By Lefeaux APPEALS TO CLUBS Wancouver Centre Communist Election Committee writes to the ‘News’ stating that they have re- ceived a reply from W. W.. Lefeaux, C.C-E. candidate in Yancouver Gen- tre, to their letter appealing’ for unity in the election on the basis of the minimum program of demands of the Communist Election Commit- tee, in which he states that the posi- tion of the Provincial Executive Committee of the ©.C.F. stands as far as he is concerned. Rank and File For Unity. The Communists State that they regret this blank refusal for unity on the part of Lefeaux, but they do not consider that this attitude repre- sents the sentiment of the majority of the members of the €.G.E. They therefore will continue to appeal to the members of the C.C.F. in their clubs and on the jobs, and in other activities to press for united efforts to secure a majority of progressive CCE. and Communist candidates elected to Parliament, who will fieht for the immediate needs of the com- mon people. UNITED LABOR VOTE IS NEEDED By Worker Correspondent. NANAIMO. Sept. 25.— Efforts to effect election unity in this constit- uency are being carried on by way. of a series of meetings and leaflets issued by the local Communist Plec- tion Committee. Jack ‘Taylor, of Waneouver is scheduled to Spealk here Sept. 26th. Gennett decided to pass up Nanai- ma, as he was scheduled to speak last Sunday, but instead. he sent RICH MUST PAY Extracts From the Com- munist Election Pamphlet “To meet the economic needs of the people, to avert inflation to ease the enormous burdens of the people, there is ONLY one solution: THE RICH MUST PAY! This is just! The taxation of the large fortunes Should be carried out as follows: $30,000 to $50,000, 3 per cent.; $50,000 to $100.000, 5 per cent; $100,000 to $200,000, 7 per cent.; $200,000 to $300.000, 9 per cent.; $800,000 to $500,000, 12 per cent.; $500;000 to $1,000,000, 15 per cent.; $1,000,000 to $10,000,000, 20 per cent.; over $10,- 000,000, 25 per eent. This taxation can be carried through in one year by a thorough investigation and public exposure of the fortunes of the 60 big financial rulers of this country and the few thousands of capitalists. The Alternative. To raise a similar sum by other means would require an inflation of the currency equivalent to at least a 40 per cent reduction of Wages, sal- aries and small incomes, bringing enormous hardships to the Canadian people. It is precisely on this road of inflation that the Bennett sgoyv- ernment is travelling, a road that will be followed by either King or Stevens, if they are elected to office. Stevens now openly calls for drastic inflation, a policy which will plunge the masses into ever deeper poverty, This Program Is Realizable. The above is part of the imme- diate economic program proposed by the Wational Communist ~Election Committee. This program is realiz—- able. That is one of the principle reasons why it is brought forward at this time as the only immediate answer to the central issue of the present federal elections. MOONEY AND BILLINGS CASE IN NEW HEARING Were Sentenced on Per- jured Evidence 19 Years Ago SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Sept. 26. —Tom Mooney was brought from San Quentin Penitentiary and War- ren Billings was brought from TFol- som, where they have been impri- Ssoned for the past nineteen years for a crime they never committed to atttnd the court hearmmne that will decide whether they will go free or spend the rest of their lives in jail Nineteen years azo they were con- wicted and sentenced on perjured evi- dence for a bombing at the Prepared- ness Day parade in San Francisco. Billings was 23 years old when he went in, now he is over 40, and Mooney has aged and his health is affected, but both of them have re- tained their revolutionary working elass spirit. The press reports that they met at this court hearing for the first time in nineteen years and embraced and, as Mooney wept, they agreed that the cause they went to prison for is a just cause. It will be remembered that Mooney’s mother died about a year ago, his wife has remained in San Francisco throughout the nineteen years of his imprisonment. The case is going on as we zo to press. It is being heard in the court of Referee A. BE. Shaw at San Wran- cisco. Unity of the labouring and common people ean defeat King. Bennett and Stevens. Grote Stirling, tozether with Tupper and Dickie, M.-P. Stirling was inept, in fact his voice gave out and his audience steadily walked away. Speaker—M. Bruce. SEPT. Speaker—M. Bruce. OCT. Speaker—M. Bruce. Hear Malcolm Bruce Communist Candidate The following meetings will be held by the Commu- nist Election Committee in the interests of the Commu- nist candidate for Vancouver East, Malcolm Bruce. Clip this out and keep these dates open. WATCH THE “B.C. WORKERS’ NEWS” FOR FURTHER BRUCE MEETINGS AFTER OCT. 4th!" SEPT. 27—Renfrew Community Hall, 22nd and Nootka. Speakers—M. Bruce, B. Samson, P. Lowe. - SEPT. 27—Franklin School, Speakers—J. Taylor, M. Bruce. SEPT. 30—Victoria Rd. Community; Hall, 43rd & Vict. Speakers—M. Bruce, C. Stewart. SEPT. 29—Ex-Servicemen’s Hall, 150 W. Hastings St. —Clinton Hall, Cor. Clinton and Pender Sts. OCT. 1—Ritz Hall, 43rd and Fraser Avenue. Speakers—M. Bruce, Bob Lealess. 2—Laura Secord School, Broadway & Lakewood. Speakers—M. Bruce, B. OCT. 4—Edmunds Community Cen., 1068 Edmunds St. OCT. 10—Ritz Hall, 43rd and Fraser Avenue. Speakers—M. Bruce, J. Taylor. Cariboo and Albert Streets. Samson, Chair., R. Drayton. a