lating himself.—LENIN.

» Whoever wants to kelp vacillat-
ing souls, should first stop vacil-

B.C.

RS

Watch For Special 8 Page Election Edition Next Week

Scorn the Red Bogey propa-
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defeat him at the polls.

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VOL. I

Published Weekly

VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1935 _

Single Copies:

5 Cents cS

No. 37

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Among Officials,’’ Says
Paddy Coyle

Emery and Greer Show
How Boss Despatch
Discriminates

VANCOUVER, Sept. 25.—Called to
the stand and questioned by Judge
= Dayis last Monday, Paddy Coyle, a
f waterfront worker for the last 25
4 years, gave straight-from-the-shoul-
@ der answers at the lockout hearings,

3 being held in the Moose Temple, Bur-
= rard Street.
4 Goyle, in answer to a question,
© stated that a notice of the Shipping

> Federation at Dollarton read, “The
© ederation has cancelled the azree-
e ment and men wantine work could
) apply individually.”
4 “What did you think of that?”
© said Judset Davis.

Coyle replied, ‘““What did I think.
© Well, I was locked out.”

This answer cleared up any un-

© certainties which may haye existed
Bas to the “fairness” of the Shipping
©» Federation, who offered to re-employ
Sunion men individually.

The Judge prefaced his question
to Doyle by stating that “Mr. Coyle
seemed to be an intelligent fair-
minded man.”

He next asked him. ‘“‘What de you
> think is wrong?”

Shipping Federation Parasites.
In answer to the commissioner,
' Coyle pointed to the array of lawyers
,and representatives of the Powell
River Company and the Shipping
Federation, replied. ‘‘Take away Mr.
' Crombie and there is mot one man
I know.”
: By this answer Coyle, an old-timer
/on the waterfront, showed the para-
| sitie nature of the Shipping Pedera-
» tion, which, composed of highly paid
) officials, dictates the labor policy
) on the entire waterfront. Coyle dem-
-onstrated by his answer that they
" were chisellers.
ivan Emery,
’ tive, asked the
& Coyle:
s “In your epinion, has the indiyid-
/ual the right to refuse to handle un-
§ fair careo?”
Coyle replied, HERE
pwould not work it.’’
: This answer stated the determina-
® tion of the entire body of locked-out
mien: it was 2 challenge to Judge
» Davis, who last week stated that he
questioned the right of the business
fasent to declare a Carzo unfair.
Boss Despatehing Unfair.
: James Greer, a business agent for
‘the Vancouver local union, said that
Pthe question of who should do the
despatchine, the Shipping FPedera-
tion or the union, was the crux of
-the present situation. Greer quoted
Pnumerous incidents where sharp
friction occurred in the despatch of
"men by the Shipping Federation who
‘arbitrarily decide these matters.
> he union in an effort to equalize
Searnings, whereby low paid men
would get a chance for higher pay,
always came up against this snag,
Stated Greer, who aiso said there
were many in the audience who
could testify on these grievances.

Emery explained that as long as
despatching was in the hands of the
Shipping Federation, resentment
would exist and that Oscar Salo-
snen’s statement that union despatch
Mwhich was carried out after May
27th until the lock-out, was satis-
factory.

workers’ representa-
followine question of

tell you, Tf

Shipping Fed. Parasites

On Backs Of Workers;
Impede A Settlement

4 fT af
| “Knows Only One Face| UNDAUNTED AFTER

19 YEARS IN JAIL

“The workers are so powerful
that if they all organize they can
contro! everything . .. I believe in
the socializing of all the wealth
of the world for the people. The
ultimate purpose of all labor is to
free itself so that there will be no
classes .. . There can never be in-
dustrial peace until this is accomp-
lished.”” —Mooney’s statement in
court after 10 years imprisonment.

STREET CARMEN
DO GOOD WORK

Splendid Financial Sup-
port Rendered to Ar-
rested Workers

Members of Division 101, Street
Railwaymen’s Wmnion, actively par-
ticipated in the sale of “Labor De-
fence Bonds,” and turned over $153
to the B.C. Joint Defence Commit-
tee, which takes this opportunity to
thank all the members for their
fSenerous donations, and also those
who handled the selling of the De-
fence Bonds.

Five hundred dollars has so far
been receiyed from band sales, but
this is far from the amount needed,
and the B.C. Joint Defence Commit-
tee asks that all money so far raised
be turned in as quickly as possible
by individual salesmen. Organiza-
tions are asked to check up at least
weekly to see that 41] books are in
action.

MATT SHAW TO
SPEAK AT W'PEG

Mothers’ Council Win-
ning Wide Support
for Campboys

By CARL HITCHIN
Winnipes Correspondent

WINNIPEG, Man., Sept. 18 —Matt
Shaw will speak in Winnipee at a
mass meeting arranged by the Win-
nipes Mothers Supporting Confer-
ence, in aid of the trekkers.

Letters are being sent to all wom-
en's organizations throughout Win-
nipegs, appealing for co-operation in
Faining support for the boys who
are yet in jail as a result of the
Dominion Day Regina “riot.”

The Wainnipee Mother Supporting
Commiitstee is appealing to all the
women interested in the betterment
of the conditions of the youth to-
day, to join hands with them, in the
fight for the release of the impris-
oned boys.

The mass meeting will be held at
the Starland Theatre, Sept. 29, at 2
p.m.

Defeat the efforts of the
rich to evade contributing to
the welfare of the country.

ELECT MALCOLM BRUCE!

Police Prevent

Liberal Govw’t Policy of
Increased Terror

PRINCETON, B.C. Sept. 21.—
Kelly. of the Gamp Workers, and
Scobie, of the Longshoremens Union
or Vancouver, arrived here yesterday
to address a meeting which had been
advertised to be held at the Thomas
Hall, and were met by Provincial
Police and told to “turn the car
around and get out of town.’’

This bigh-handed method of in-
timidatine workers is a regular prac-
tice of the Liberal Provincial gov-
ernment.

Hall Owner and Speakers
Intimidated

Before the two speakers
the police, led by Constable
ill, paraded the street and stopped
workers and searched them without
any warrant. They also intimidated
the owner of the haljl, Mr. Thomas,
informing him that in yiew of the
fact the hall was not covered by fire

arrived,
Hather-

insurance, and because there were
ne fire extinguishers in it, the hall

Longshore

Defence Meet At Princeton

could not be rented.
Police Tear Down Posters

They threatened to prevent people
from entering the hall in any case.
The posters which had been placed
around the town advertising the
meeting were torn down by the po-
lice, and workers on the streets
were intimidated and threatened if
they showed any interest in the pro-
posed meeting.

Thomas was afraid to allow the
meeting to go on, and the workers
were so intimidated by the police
that an open air meeting would have
been very poorly attended.

ELECTION NOTICE

Trucks leave Gore Ave. and
Hastings every Monday. Wed-
nesday and Hriday at 5 p.m.
sharp, with canvassers for the
Communist candidate for the
Vancouver East Riding, Mal-
ecolm Bruce. There’s room on

MALCOLM BRUCE

COMMUNIST CANDIDATE
IN VANCOUVER EAST

Highland Scotch extraction.
the ‘Western States.

His local union in Regina fouehi
stubbornly against his expulsion and
when he was finally expelled, volun-
tarily refunded to him two years’
dues.

Led Carpenters’ Strilxe
In 1910 he located in Regina, Sask.,
where he found carpenters workin=

16 hours a day and the wages 35
eents per hour. Within six weeks
after his arrival he was leading a

general strike of the building trades
workers which resulted in substan-
tial gains for the strikers.

He left the Socialist Party of Can-
ada, of which he was a member, be-
cause of its reformism and sectar-
ianism and its refusal to affiliate to
the Communist International. At-
tended the convention in Toronto in
Pebruary, 1922, at which the Work-
ers’ (Communist) Party of Canada
was formed, and was elected a mem-
ber of the Central Executive Com-

mittee. In November of the same
year he became editor of ‘‘The
Worker.”’

Got 3000 Votes in 1923
May Day, 1923, in Nova Scotia,
Saw Bruce arrested and charged
with sedition for statements made
in his speech on that day. His ac-

quittal was undoubtedly due to the
Solid stand of 11,000 miners on this
question.

A few months later he was nomin-
ated as Canadian Labor Party can-
didate in the provincial elections for
South-west Toronto and received the
highest vote of any labor candidate
running in Toronto, polling nearly
3000 votes, but failine of election.
With Tim Buck he represented the
Communist Party of Canada at the
fifth Congress of the Communist In-
ternational at Moscow in 1924.

Deported from U.S.A. for Defense
Work

He went to work as a carpenter in

San Francisco in 1926, where he par-

ticipated in the ereat carpenters’

strike. Finding himself blacklisted

he went to Los Angeles for work.

There, he took an active part in or-

ganizing the campaign on behalf of
Sacco and Vanzetti until he was ar-
rested for these efforts and finally
deported back to Canada.

Arrested in 1931, in Vancouver,
and charged under Section 98 alongs
with eght others. Was tried in No-
vember and sentenced to five years
in Kingston Penitentiary. Released
on parole after serving two and one-
half years.

Since his release he continues to
maintain his record of activity in
the labor movement.

Open the B.C. Ports for the

a truck fer you.

trade ships of the U.S.S.R.

Bruce Has A Lifetime Of
Work In Labor’s Cause

Malcolm Bruce, Communist candidate for Vancouver East
Riding, is a native-born Canadian (Prince Edward Island) of
A worker all his life, he is a
carpenter by trade and has worked as a hard-rock miner in

Fer thirty years a union man, he is now an honorary
member of the Mine Workers’ Union of Canada. Was a mem-
ber of the Carpenters’ Union, also the Western Federation
of Miners, from which he was expelled by dictatorial orders
of International officials in 1925 because of his opposition
to the official policy of collaboration s

League Bans
War By Italy

Italian Delegates Quit;
World Opposition to

War Grows
GENEVA, Sept. 26. — Anthony
Eden of England, Laval of Prance

and Litvinoff of the Soviet Union
were unanimous today as the League
of Nations Council gave notice to
Italy and Ethiopia that war cannot
be started before Dec. 4th without
violating the League Covenant. Their
speeches were interpreted by ob-
servers as indicating that the sanc-
tions that may be employed against
them will be vigerously pursued.

The TItalian delegation to the
Council walked out of the building,
their spokesman stating that they
would not sit in at the same ses-
sions as the representatives of
Ethiopia.

Gommon People Oppose War.

Throughout the world there is op-

position and protest meetings of
peace-lovins people against the
threat of Mussolini to attack and

make war on the people of Ethiopia.
In New York last night at Madison
Square Gardens a mass meeting. ¢s-

timated at~-8000 people, protested
against the threatened invasion of
Ethiopia. At Budapest, Hungary, a

demonstration, shouting “Down with
Mussolini and MItaly,” stoned the
Italian Legation, breaking the win-
dows today.

Great DBGritain is massing
in the Mediterranean and reinforc-
ing its air force at Gibraltar and at
Malta. A laret naval fleet is visit-
ing Greece.

vessels

JUDGE SPEEDS
CLASS JUSTICE

Cameron and the White
Slavers’ Trials Cost
Huge Sum

But Workers Get Short
Shrift at Hands of
Justice Murphy

“This trial has already cost a
ereat deal of money,” stated Jus-
tice Murphy, who sent a jury baclx
Jor the third time in order to force
a verdict on six Powell River lonz-
shore strikers, and at that the jury
strongly recommended mercy, al-
though they brought in a verdict
of “guilty.”

These men were charged with un-
lawful assembly arising out of an in-
eident in the Powell River longshore
Strike on June 28.

The jury vetred at 1.15 after a two-
day hearing, returned at 2.45 to re-
port that they could not agree.

Mr. Justice Murphy 2ave them fur-
ther instruction and requested them
to continue.

“A distinet contrast to the long
drawn out Cameron trial!

At 4 o’clock they again
failure to agree.

They were told to go back again
and at 4.50 they handed down their
verdict.

Gordon Grant, defense counsel,
after discussing the verdict with the
C.L.D.L., said he will carry the case
to appeal.

NEW ZEALAND
~ CREW WALK OFF

Refuse To Handle Scab
Cargo

reported

scab cargo which the ship’s master
intended to talke out of this port to-
day, and when scabs were put
aboard to let go the Imes, the crew
rushed ashore.

Held for a while at the Immigra-
tion Sheds, they Were afterwards re-
leased. The capitalist papers in re-
porting this walk-off, studiously
avoided the issue and instead, trump-
ed up a story about the “unionized”
erew refusing to sail shorthanded.
one of their number being sick.

EMERY TRIAL IS
SET FOR SATURDAY

Ivan Emery, longeshoremen’s Jead-
er out on $5000 bond, is slated to ap-

pear for trial on Saturday, Sept.
28th, on a charge of “inciting to
riot.’ The €.L.D.L. appeals to all
sympathizers to pack the assize

court and thus show solidarity with
Ismery, who is fighting a eross
frame-up.

THUGS SHOOT
AT PICKET LINE

VANCOUVER, Sept.

two revolver shots
pickets stationed at the corner of
Cassiar and-*= Cariboo Streets, a
bunch of gangsters arriving with
guns. blackjacks and rocks made a
surprise assault last night.
The pickets replied with a volley
of rocks and repelled the attack. By
this time the police arrived and they
took a earload of thugs, presumably,
to the police station.

26. — Wiring
at longshore

ELECT MALCOLM BRUCE!

Special Election Issue Of
The ‘News’ Next Week

Coming off the press ten days before election day, the
“B.C. Workers’ News” will be a SPECIAL ELECTION
It will be the most attractive
revolutionary working class paper yet issued in B.C.. con-
taining many illustrations, pictures of candidates, and spe-
cial features. Several extra thousand will be issued and,
all points are requested to get their machinery into
operation now to handle extra copies.

ISSUE OF EIGHT PAGES.

will be made for this issue.

worker’s and farmer’s home!

No extra charge
Let us get one into every

intervened and on the understandings
that a conciliation board would

set up and that all but one man
would be taken back to work, the
mine was re-opened.

men,
mittee, are still out of work.
up
mine works seven days a week (a
violation of the mining laws) and
although the men yoted to rotate the
work in order to get the discrimin-—
ated ones back, the company would
not allow this.

should note that the Federal Depart-

c.C.F. CANDIDATE
BAKER FOR UNITY

SURREY, B.C., Sept. 26.—By a
yote of 27 to 7 the District Coun-
cil of the €.C.F. here voted to sup-
port the C.C_F. candidate, the Rev.
Baker, in his policy of endorsing
and pressing for the immedate
needs of the common people (as
advocated by the Communist Plec-
tion Committee in their minimum
program of demands).

The Rev. Baker let it be known
that he stands for the unity of
the working-class in attaining this
objective, and stated: ‘The elec-
tions are just another phase of the
elass struggle.”

GRANT McNIEL
OK'S DEMANDS

Nerth Vancouver Riding
Should Elect This
C.C.F.’er

Communist Blection
has approached Grant

Coquitlam
Committee

MeNiel. ©.C:F. candidate for Van-
ecuver North in the Pederal Blec-
tion, on the question of united ef-

forts to gain 4 minimum amount of
requirements needed by the common
beople of Canada.

Whilst McNiel could give no offi-
cial recognition of the Communist
Proposals, he was in full sympathy
with the proposals put forward by
the Communists for the needs of the
people at this time and unofficially
endorsed the program of minimum
demands.

Furthermore, the ©.C.F. candidate
whole-heartedly endorsed the local
demand for the “maintenance of
local self-soverning municipalities”
as opposed to the institution of
“commissioners” as being practised
by the Provincial Government.

MASS ACTION
SAVES HOMES

BURNABY, Sept. 24.— Repercus-

—

VANCOUVER, Sept. 22.—Solidar-| sions of the tax sales protest organ-
ity with the locked-out waterfront] icq by the small home owners of
workers of B.C. kept the hands of Burnaby on Monday, Sept. 16 es
the whole crew of the “Wairuna.” they packed the SAT SORTS
thirty-three men, from touching tne) ovo). Which Commissioner Fraser

now acts as Czar, were felt, when a
by-law was put through ensuring
that veterans of the war will not be
turned out of their homes or driven
from other property they own, by
reason of tax delinquency. Provi-
sions were also made which will ben-
efit others.

This goes to prove the efficacy of
mass indignation expressed in dem-
onstrations against grievances.

IVEN IMPETUS

Communist Candidate Malcolm
Bruce Acclaimed By Workers As

Best Choice In Vancouver East

¥McGeer Is Meeting With

Stiff Opposition From
A. Webster

Enthusiastic audiences are greet-
ing Malcolm Gruce. Communist can-
didate in Vancouver East. as his
campaign gets into its stride.

Bruce spoke at Norquay Commun-
ity Hall last Tuesday, being support-
ed by a young speaker, Yampolsky,
who dealt with the problems of the
youth. The next evening he was
supported by Bob Lealess at the
10.0.%. Hall on Hastings Street
East. The same night Bill Purvis
spoke at 150 Hastings Street West
to the Ex-Servicemen for the Com-
munist Hlection Committee. George
Drayton spoke Jast Sunday to a
number of @.C.Mers at a meetine in
the Gladstone area. Scores of house
meetings are being held with many
C.G.F. members attending.

Canvassers Report Support for
Bruce,
Canvassers for Bruce report that
many former McInnis supporters

are going to vote for Bruce. Over
100,000 leaflets are bhein= dis—
tributed. Wifteen thousand copies
of the pamphlets, “Make the Rich
Pay” and “They Want Your Votes,”’
have been sold and another 25,000
are to be sold during the next two
weeks. Numerous meetings are ar—
ranged for to be held in schools and
halls, as well as open air meetings
to be held in the riding. Z

There is no doubt that the candi-
dacy of Bruce is welcomed by thou-
Sands of workers in the constituency,
many of whom have hitherto sup=
Ported Angus Malnnis, fout now
have withdrawn that Support be-
Cause of his opposition to the United
Front and his support of Bennett's
anti-workinge class lesislation in the
House of Commons.

Webster Has Wide Communist
Support.

Gerry McGeer in Vancouver Bur-
rard is meetings with stiff Opposition
from A. Webster and is concentrat-
ims on the “Red *Bozey” and the
Supposed Communist plots to de-
Stroy Wancouver, just as much as
Bennett did in regard to the “kid-
napping” and the “Soviets at Ot-
tawa"’ gas. Webster is Setting sup-
Port from hundreds of Communists
in the city, the Communist Elec-
tion Committee haying orfanized in-
dependent meetines to support him.

Many Candidates.

: There are, “according to available
information, 747 Candidates in the
field throughout the country. These
include Conservatives, Liberals, Re-
constructionists, Social Creditors,
C.C._Fers, Socialists. United TFarniers,
Labor, Communists, Independents
and one Technoecrat. The United
Farmers of Alberta are now under
the €.C F. label.

ELECT MALCOLM BRUCE!

Gov’t And Company Join
_To Force Strike Ballot

Discrimination Against
45 Men Continues

Speed-up and Intimida-
tion in Mine

By WORKER CORRESPONDENT

CUMBERLAND, B.C, Sept. 24 —
Resentment exists here because 45
miners have not been put back to
work despite promises, being obvi-
ously discriminated against by the
company ,and preparations are now
being made by the executive of the
local branch of the Mine Workers’
Union of Canada to take a strike bal-
lot on this question.

Canadian Collieries (Dunsmuir Ltd.)
who own the mines in Cumberland,
violated a signed contract with the
men when they attempted to enforce
the contract system. TFive hundred

men objected and were locked out by
the company.

The Federal Department of Labor

be

have
the

Seven weeks
including

passed and 45
svrieyance com-
Speed-
intimidation The

and sroyws.

Sympathizers and friends of labor

ment of Labor insists that a strike

]
|

vote is necessary before they will
srant a conciliation board. This forc-
es the miners to consider strike ac-
tion to enforce their Just demand.
This stand does not coincide with
the Industrial Disputes Act.

Arbitration Board
On Typos’ Wages

VANCOUVER, Sept. 26.—Arbitra-
tion proceedings are Soinge forward
here between the Typographical
Union members and the publishers
with Mr. Melnikoff, well known labor
lawyer of San Francisco, represent—
ing the men, and Judge MacDonald
as chairman. The question being
arbitrated is the demand of the
workers for increased wages and bet-
ter working conditions. The board
is sitting at the Board Room in the
Province Buildine.

The award of this board will have
a far reaching effect on the wages
and conditions of the rest of °the
trades in the printing industry.

FLASH!

VANCOUVER, SHgF, 25,——
Found “guilty” this afternoon
of “unlawful assembly,” Alec
McLeod, Jack Hughes, Tony
Morelli, and Mrs. Turner, who
participated in the heroic
struggle of the longshoremen
at Ballantyne Pier last J une,
will be sentenced at the end of
the Fall Assizes. Not a work
er was on the jury.

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