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Vancouver, B.C., March 20, 1936

PERFIDIOUS ALBION AGAIN
HE GOVERNMENT of Great Britain are
acting in the old traditional hypocritical
British manner in the crisis precipitated by the
occupation of the Rhineland by the troops of
Fascist Germany. Posing as the ereat protagzo-
nist of peace. they secretly support Ttaly and

Germany, regardless of the consequences.

Their latest proposals expose their role more
clearly than their previous actions in the crisis.
In words they propose “eondemning”’ Hitler.
But they want the Franco-Soviet pact to be sub-
mitted to the World Court to determine whether
ii is in violation of the Locarno treaty. Obvyious-
ly their purpose is to declare it as a violation,
although it is a pact openly made for the main-
tenance of peace, and one to the signing of which
eyery nation is invited. Whilst declaring that
Hitler violated the Locarno agreement, they want
fo make it appear that France and the Soviet
Union violated it first, thus extenuating Hitler’s
action.

That Great Britain’s imperialists, although
defeated in their murderous interventionist war
against Soviet Russia in 1919-21, have not given
up hope of uniting the great imperialist powers
in another attack against the Soviet Union, is
seen in the proposals of the British government
for a four-power pact among Germany, France,
Britain and Belgium providing for mutual guar-
antees of non-ageression.

But the non-ageression is applicable only
among themselves and does not forbid aggres-
sion aganist any nation not included in the
agreement.

All this so-called peace pact means is peace
among the imperialist powers in order to Jaunch
an attack against the Soviet Union. It is an
attempt to break the Franco-Soviet peace pact.
Tt means that the peace proposed among the rob-
ber nations is the peace preceding the storm of
eapitalist world attack agaist the Soyiet Union.
The imperialist nations are for peace among
themselves when such peace is necessary for the
welding of a united front of war against the
country of socialism.

The people of Canada are in the main opposed
to war. But that does not mean that Canada can
keep out of war unless we fight now for main-
taining peace. And to contribute to maintaining
peace the people of Canada must insist that
Canada plays her part in the world arena in
restraining and punishing aggressors such as
Ttaly and Germany, the fascist powers which are
the spearhead of imperialist warmongering.

The Canadian government must be compelled
to break their military alliance with Britain.
That the present government is a ready tool of
the British government was seen clearly in their
repudiation, at the insistence of the British goy-
ernment, of the demand for oil sanctions which
was put forward at Geneva by Dr. Riddell, who
apparently was deceived into believing that the
British government were sincere in their ex-
pressed opposition to Mussolini’s imvasion of
Ethiopia and desired the application of sanctions

to defeat him.

MR. CONNELL’S SPEECH
PEOCRESSTVE people who are desirous of

buildine up a mass people’s party in B.C.
were handed a setback by the speech on the
budget delivered hy Rev. Robert Connell, C.C.F.
leader in the provincial House.

Mr. Connell went out of his way to rebuke
some of his colleagues, men who came from and
are of the working class, and to repudiate their
progressive utterances in the House and through-
out the province.

For aman ef Mr. Connell’s social position and
occupation to tel] a man like E..E. Winch what
a political party, predominantly labor, or at least
based on the working class, should be is presump-
fous at least. Waineh has been in the labor
movement for some forty years and has been in
the leadership of some of the largest trade
unions in the province. Moreover, he was one of
the founders and organizers of the C.C.F.

The speech of the C.C.F. provincial House

leader is reminiscent of the ponderous admoni-
tions of Ramsay MacDonald when the latter
was making the Labor Party respectable and
beginning the buildimge of socialism “oradually~
within capitalism. Not only did Mr. Connell
rebuke the most progressive C.C.F. members ‘of
the House, he also repudiated Marxian socialism.

He also misrepresented Communism when he
stated that the immediate aim ot the Commu-
nists is to approach government so as to ereate a
revolutionary situation. Nothing could be fur-
ther from the facts. Communists approach capi-
talist government for the purpose of exerting
pressure upon them to gain better conditions for
the common people, to compel the governments

to eall off their police dogs from attacking the

workers during industrial disputes, to safeguard
what civil and democratic rights remain, and to
use the capitalist democratic parliaments as a
tribune for the advancement of the cause of the
workers in the class strugele.

The attack of Mr. Connell on a section of the
anti-capitalist forces elicited complimentary re-
marks from the liberals and conservatives; and
no wonder, for they correctly regarded it as the
entering of a wedge not only im the people’s front
so far attained, but the beginning of a split in
the C.C.F. itself.

The attack upon the progressive C.C.F. mem-

bers of the House was wholly unwarranted and
unealled for, and unless its bad impression and
effects are corrected, will not only lessen the
effectiveness of the ©.C.F. Opposition im the

House, but will adversely affect the C.C.F-. or-
It

can not make progress along the lines followed

ganizationally and in the next election.
The C.C.E. must move with the times.

twenty or more years ago, the lines of Ramsay

MacDonald and Snowden, for instance. Being
merely another political party, going no further

than pious promises of a more honest adminis-

tration of government in these days of fast-

moving eyents, is not enough.

It is regrettable in the extreme that the speech
of Ma. Connell was made, and pursuance of such
a line will contribute to a serious split in the
C.C.F. Opposition in the House and throughout
the entire party—to the delight and advantage

of the forces of reaction.

It may be that Harold Winch acted somewhat
hastily in resigning as chief whip of the Oppo-
sition, although his resentment at the ill-advised
repudiation by his leader in the House is easily

understood, and can be sympathized with.

Im the interest of the oppressed people of the

province, as well as in the interest of the C.C.F.

itself, no time should be lost in eradicating the

ill effects of the damaging speech of the C.C.P.

provincial House leader by healing the breach

that it undoubtedly made, or at least widened,
and bringing about unity im aim, policy and
tactics among the members of the House and
throughout the party.

MORE POLICE TERROR

HE DESPICABLE role of the police force
of Vancouver during the strike of the Relief
Camp workers and the lockout of the longshore-
men is again evident in their persecution of the
youths who left the camps im order to secure
more remunerative employment and who, after
failing in their quest, are denied re-admittance
to the camps and at the same time refused relief
by the Vancouver City Council and the federal
and provincial governments.

The boys are going about securing food and
shelter in the perfectly leeal way of soliciting
assistance in an organized manner. But even
this is denied them. They are being arrested,
sinely and in pairs, questioned and intimidated
and their collection sheets confiseated.

That such Hitlerist actions by McGeer’s
Storm Troops and Gestapo is tolerated is an in-
dictment of the apathy of a large section of
the people of Vancouver. In the situation in
which the single unemployed workers are forced
by the decisions of the authorities, they are. be
ing driyen to either death or existence by means
of crime. The Mothers’ Council is doing excel-
lent work in fighting for these youths who have
been so criminally discriminated agaimst. The
whole body of organized lalfor should take up the
fight and let the brutal and callous authorities
Know that they cannot get away with it.

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fire and the capitalist parties and
press are taking full advantage of
it. One member of the Opposition,

VANCOUVER GIRL

REPUDIATES

(Gontinued from page 1)

put into operation if elected to pow-
er in B.C. He told the House that
the C.C.F. would work within the
Jimitations of the Provincial Gov-
ernment and within the principles
of democracy.

He repudiated all those who stand
for Marxian Socialism. E. HE. Winch,
C.C.F. member for Burnaby, and his
son Harold, member for Vancouver
Fast, walked out of the House in
protest. At once the Liberal mem-
bers could see that a dramatic
struggle was taking place. A couple
of days earlier, E. E. Winch had
spoken in the House and said that
he stood squarely for scientific
Marxian Socialism.

On Sunday last, Harold Winch
spoke to a gathering of C.C.F. mem-
pers and their supporters in Vic-
ftoria and told them that he “dif-
fered and absolutely repudiated the
CCHF. leader’s statement on the
floor of the House.”

The following day, Monday, Har-
old Winch resigned as chief whip
of the C.C.F. group, and Jack Price,
his co-member for Van. East, was
elected in his place.

This has added further fuel to the

Clive Planta, who boasted of his
loyalty to conservatism, declared on
the floor that the C.C.F. was split
into three parts: the Christian so-
cialists as exemplified by Mr. Con-
nell on the right, the revolutionary
Marxian Socialists as exemplified
by the Winches on the left, and the
reformers in the centre, and there-
fore would never be able to hold
power for long.

Another member, Major MacKay,
Liberal, said that Mr. Connell had
been spoken of as administering a
“spanking” to the C.C.F., “but,” he
said, “I think that sometimes the
leaders of political parties could do
with a spanking.’ Harold Winch
was seen to applaud this remark.

Ernest Bakewell, C.C.F. member
for MacKenzie, also spoke in the
debate on the budget, proposing a
Provincial Bank, and other finan-
cial planks as part of the C.C.F.
program. He endorsed the stand of
Mr. Connell, the C.C.F. leader, and
Harold Winch walked out while he
was speaking.

The capitalist press and capitalist
representatives in the House are
losing no opportunity to take ad-
vantage of the rift in the ranks of
the G.G.F. members. Conservatives
are using it to attempt to revive the
conservative party, and the Liberals
are using it to strengthen the ranks
of the government supporters.

HAPPY INULS.S.R.

(Extract from letter from Van-
couver girl who has been 3144 years
in Moscow).

Wow for your questions. Hous-
ing: The plan is in ten years to
double the housing space in Moscow.
And it will be done. That won't keep
up with needs and population
growth too, I imagine, but it will
be an amazing improvement.

Food prices have come down
greatly and are rumored to be on
the decrease soon again. One can
get almost everything here now.
Silks and woolens are still expen-
sive. Agriculture is getting on
swimingly and everyone is full of
the new Stakhanoy movement for
better technique and productivity.
The subway is working splendidly,

ana the second one is under con-
struction.
I love Moscow (not the climate),

and Russia, and have learned a lot

in the past 34% years.

The Reich Bureau of Statistics re-
veals that 1935 showed a steady and
marked decrease in the number of
marriages in the fifty-five larger
German cities and that the final
months of the year showed an
equally marked decrease in the
birth rates.

The World
This Week

By F. B.

Six months ago observers of Nazi
economy expressed themselves as
doubtful if Germany could pull
through the winter without serious
iniermmal upheavals . Although she
managed to weather the storm thus
far the fimancial crisis that was
such a menace months ago has by
no means passed over. It is worse
if anything. It is so bad that it
more than anything else is driving
Hitler to war, even as the domestic
condition compelled Mussolini to
seek war as a way out. A financial
collapse of two nations will shake
European capitalism to its founda-
tions, there won’t be much of the
capitalist system left if it is permit-
ted to happen,and it has been to
prevent this that the capitalist gsov-
ermments of Britain and FErance
have been exerting their best ef-
forts ever Since Mussolini attacked
Abyssinia last October.

That German occupation of the
Rhineland was a move of despera-
tion, a move made at a time when
something just had to be done, is
shown by this quotation from an
artéecle in The Daily Province of
March 3:

“Doctor Shacht, Germany’s eco-
nomic dictator, recently met inter-
nzetional bankers in Basle, including
Montague Norman, governor of the
Bank of England. Shacht was tola
that the only hope of financial and
economic recovery for Germany was
for her to rejoin the League of Na-
tions and thus dissipate the foreign
fears of Nazi aggression. There-
after loans might be had to shore

up her tottering economic struc-
ture.”
It is very doubtful if even this

telis the whole story of what tran-
spired at that conference. On the
very face of it is read the fact that
British financial interests are not
epposed to Nazism as such; their
opposition to it is not that it has
crushed the labor movement, per-
secuted the Jews, attempted to des-
troy culture, wiped out all vestiges
of democracy. No! Lhe British finan-

ciers loan money to the Nazi
beasts. throw them a financial life-

line, to perpetuate their bloody rule.
The Nazis, soaked in the blood of
the German people as they are, are
insatiable in their thirst for more
gore. They have built such a power-
ful military machine that their
neighbors live in fear, all wonder-
ing just where and when and
against whom the Nazi beast will
direct its fangs.

The “tight littie isle’ of Britain
is within easy reach of German
bombing planes, and no way has yet
been devised to prevent an attack
from the air. Air attacks can only
be replied to by reprisals of a simi-
lar nature, but one great surprise
attack might conceivably reduce
the attacked nation to a position of
not being able to undertake repri-
sats. Great Britainjs great arma-
ment program, its arrangements for
the distribution of forty thousand
gasmasks to the civilian population,
indicate she expects to be attacked.
But by whom? Certainly not by the
United States, by France, or by the
Soviet Union. Germany is the source
of this great danger and it is and
has been very noticeable that
Britain’s support of Germany is to
encourage her in attacking the
Soviet Union, the land of Socialism.

In the secret meetings of the
League of Nations Couneil this
weelk in London dealing with Hit-
ler’s Rhineland action, Britain has
taken a stand that is pro-German,
and the British press comment that
France, after all, should recognize
an accomplished fact and let it go at
tnai. But France will have none of
this. She refuses to even discuss
Hitler's preposterous peace terms,
and has threatened to withdraw
from the Jeague of Nations if
Britain insists on it. Hitler had
said that his troops moved into the
Rhineland because of the Franco-
Soviet treaty, but the MFrench
Foreign Minister ‘has spiked this
excuse by pointing out that the
militarized zone borders aiso on
Holland and Belgium neither of
which has made any pact with the
Soviet Wnion.

France was able to take a strong
stand only because she was but-
tressed by the Soviet Union, the
one nation that always lives up to
her agreements, and without this
support France would have had to
yield to the German demands sup-
ported as they have been by Britain.
Mussolini supports the French posi-
tion hoping thereby to win French
support against sanctions over the
Abyssinian war. Were it not for this
Mussolini would probably stab
France in the back, and may do it
anyway if she is attacked by Ger-
miuiny. Just previous to the present
issue Mussolini had, when con-
fronted with what’ looked like a
determined effort by Britain and
France to go ahead with oil sanc-
tions said he would leave the
League and cancel the WFranco-
{talian military treaty signed m
Tanuary. In Italy the financial sit-
uation is so critical that a new de-
cree has placed the banks under
government control.

When will Nazi
the Soviet Union? This cannot be
known, but the financial plight of
Germany is such that she must do
something soon or explode internal-
ly. The Nazis plan a huge increase
jn taxation to pay for araments;
there is fear of a financial panic
throughout the country so strong
that some cities have had a run
on the banks. However, Hitler may
wait until Japan strikes first in the
far Fiast, a move that seems at
present so imminent.

Germany attack

“A revolution cannot be
made to order; it grows.”
—Lenin.

The Glori

By W. BENNETT

Mureh 18 stands beside November
7 as one of the two red letter days
in the revolutionary calender.

Qn that day, 65 years aso, work-
ers of Paris gave actual form to the
dictatorship of the proletariat. Pre-
vious to that day the proletarian
dictatorship was but aé theory,
amorphous and subject to dispute,
but with the Commune of Paris it
became a reality, theory became
Practice, so that Engels could say
| aiterwards: “Well, then, gentlemen,
do you want to know what this dic-
tatorship is like? Look at the Paris
Commune! That was the dictator-
ship of the proletariat.”

The Commune was the first revio-
lutionary struggle in which the
working class took the leadership
into its own hands. In all the pre-

Commune Of 1871

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ous Paris

the scum and dregs of French
society, the elite among the politi-
cal grafters and their hangers-on
and the lumpen-proletariat, the
pimps, prostitutes, thugs and gar-
roters, left Paris to establish them-
selves at Versailles. All of them,
high as well as low, cultured as
well as ignorant, recognizing their
common parasitic aim, set them-
selves up in opposition to working—-
class Paris.

The Commune then set about re-
organizing society on aé_ classless
basis. All the debts incurred by the
workers and the pelly-bourgeoisie
during the siege, to the pawnshops
ana the landlords were cancelled;
small business men were protected
by & moratorium. Night work was
abolished in bake shops and pro-
tective measures taken for ali work-

vious revolutionary outpreaks in

ers. Deserted factories were taken

farmers of the Soviet Union in

(right) as Misha had his say.

Youth Shall Be Heard

“Pioneer” Misha Kulsahev, who’s reached the distinguished
age of seven, was up to the occasion when called on to deliver a
speech before a conference of the best milkmaids and poultry

ative smile spread over the usually serious face of Joseph Stalin.

Moscow’s Kremlin. An appreci-

Europe the workers as a class had
pluyed a significant role but only
under the leadership of the bour-
geoisie. In the June days of 1848. in
Paris, they for the first time pro-
claimed the class character of their
demands but the Commune is the
first occasion in history that the
workers assumed the leading role in
the revolutionary political struggle
of the oppressed classes against all
eppressine classes.

Monarchist Corruption

The incidents of the two months
of civil war during the Commune
should be better known to the work
ing class than they are. Louis
Napoleon, an imposter, claiming to
he a nephew of the first Emperor,
had seized the throne of France by
a coup @etat in 1851. Nineteen
years of misrule, of bribery and
corruption, colored at all times with
Pnperialistic dreams such as inspire

Mussolini and Hitler today, resulted
in the Franco-Prussian wur- The
Irreneh armies, officered by incom-
petent courtiers and dandies Was
utterly defeated.

The upstart Napolean did not

wait to be dethroned, he decamped,
to take refuge in that asylum of
unemployed and discredited mon-
arehs, England. A new Jfrench goy-
ernment took the reins, provisional-
ly, to make peace with the Ger-
mans. The people of Paris com-
pelled them, in spite of all resist-
ance on their part, to declare
France a republic. The terms of the
Germans were accepted and the
siege of Paris which had lasted four
months was lifted. Vhe German
armies, however, still remained out-
side the walls of Paris.

Bourgeois Treason

This provisional government, hav-
ing made peace with the German
wai lords now considered its first
task to be the disarming of the
Parisian workers-—-since armed
workers always constitute a danger
to any reactionary government.
They attempted to seize the cannons
belonging to the National Guard,
the volunteer workers who had
saved Paris from the property of
the National Guard and the people
of Paris who had bought and paid
for them with their own  hard-
earned sous, for the defence of the
city and even Bismarck was too
wise a politician to demand their
surrender in the terms of the am-
nesty.

Social Scum Recruited

The guns were seized in the early
hours of the morning of March 13
by soldiers of the Republic, led by
two of the generals who had suc-
cessfully lost the war, The women
of the Montmartre district who were
the first to discover the plan
sounded the alarm. All working
class Paris responded. The generals
showed the same skill as they did
in the war with the Prussians—
they had forgotten to bring horses
¢o move the cannon. This gave the
workers the opportunity to frater-
nize with the soldiers, When the
general in command, Lecomte, or-
dered the firing to begin, the sol-
diers refused. Iecomte and his fel-
low general Thomas, were shot
laier in the day. They were the
Same type of men as the hero in
charge of the R.C M.P. at Regina on
Dominion Day last.

The government of Thiers had de-
clared war on Paris. The safety of
their skins was at stake, so they,

wiih all their reactionary following
over by the Commune and opened
up, The priests were excluded from
the school rcoms, All Commune of-
ficials, from the representatives
down, had te work for the same
wages as a tradesman or mechanic.

They made many mistakes. They.
Were too democratic. They discussed
the constitution while they should
have been battering down the walls
of the Wersailles Palace. They ac-
tually borrowed money. from Roths-
child, at the usual rate of interest
with the Bank of France in their
hands. We cannot blame. them,
however, for their mistakes because
they were due to political im-
maturity.

Workers Slaughtered

They made the mistake also of
being inspired by ideas of ‘“‘human-
ity” when their enemy was not
“human” but the most brutally in-
human French capitalist class.
This was proved after two months
ef the Commune. At the end of
May, the Versailles with the help
of Gismarck and the support of the
Buropean- bourgeoisie, succeeded in
beating down their defences and
entering the city.

Por a bloody week the slaughter
“onltinued. The Seine ran red with
the blood of the heroie Parisian
woikers. 30,000 at least were mowed
Gown on the barricades and in the
killings that took place after. Other
$6,000 went to the galleys and the
penal settlements and the world
Was made safe for democracy again.

Mars considered the Commune
“a new landmark of universal his-
torical significance’ and ue wrote
with truth ‘“‘Workingemen’s Paris,
With its Commune, will be forever
celebrated as the glorious hardinger
of the new society. Its martyrs are
enshrined in the great heart of the
working-class. Its exterminators
history has already nailed to that
eternal pillory from which all the
prayers of their priests will not
avail to redeem them.”

The tradition of the Commupe is
alive today in Paris and France.
The tramp of the massed battalions
of the offspring of the Communards
resounds in the streets of Paris to
the threats of the blonde beast of
fascism. And just as surely as the
Commune showed the world’s work-
ers the dictatorship of the pro-
letariat in 1871, working class Paris
of today, with its People’s Front is
showing the workers of the capital-
ist countries the way to defeat the
last efforts of decadent capitalism
to still maintain itself at the ex-
pense of the workers.

Qn the 65th anniversary of March
18, 1871, we salute the heroes of
the Commune and we salute also
the heroic Parisian workers today
who are going to finish the task
begun by the Commune.

GTTAWA TRAVEL BILL HIGH

OTTAWA, March 138-—(ALEP)—
Lasi year's taxi bills to the treasury
board, excluding refunds, was $2,-
676,386.

In the pust five years,
ministers and government offiicals
have spent more than $19,000,000 on
travelling. E=x-Minister of Agricul-
ture Hon. R. Weir, spent $2,000 and
his secretary. D. B= Burgess, $1,032.
This does not include the cost of
the private car Mr. Weir used on
his journeys to his riding in Sask-

eabinet

OL’ BILL

A favorite method of disposing of
people who know too much, or who
are in the way and likely to bring
about failure of schemes that will
not bear the white glare of legality,
is to throw them out of a window
high enough to ensure that they
cannot tell tales after they arrive
at the street level. Im the solution
of “crime” by this method the
American police are particularly
adept. The victim of course, is:
never thrown out of the window; he
always “jumps” out. Salsedo, am
associate of Sacco and Vanzetti_
was one such victim. He “jumped’”
out of a window in the office of the
Department of Justice in New York
—twenty-six stories—to his doom.

A few weeks ago in Tampa, Fila.,_
a police-sergeant who was a key—
witness against the chief of police
and a mob of Klansmen, for flogg—
ing to death of a radical, Joseph
Shoemaker, “leaped” fromthe third
storey window of a local hospital
His evidence placed before the
grand jury would have exposed the
tie-up between the police, the

KEKE., the underworld and the-
bosses. He knew too much! The-
eleven cops and Klu-Kluxers-

must be saved, so—out the window
for Sergeant Tompkins.

Although the American police are-
eredited with developing the “third
degree” according to a report of
their own Congress they have no-
monopoly of the use of three-storey
windows. Erom Brazil comes the-
latest incident of this kind. Allan
Barron, son of Harrison George,
one of the best known leaders of the-
Communist Party in the States, was:
thrown from a three-storey window.
after being tortured for days.
Young Barron was a close friend of
Louis Prestes, the leader of the up—
rising in Northern Brazil, and this
is an answer of the degenerate
scoundrels who do the bidding: of
British and American imperialisne
in South America.

= * = x

Another item from Brazil that
should interest old-timers in the so-
ecialist movement in Canada com
cerns the arrest of a comrade who
was very active in Toronto, twenty,
years ago. Arthur Ewert, with his
wife, was responsible for a great
deal of the Socialist propaganda
earried on there. They were agents
in Toronto for the “Red Flag,” the
illegal paper published in Vancou-—
ver. He was a German and the
weight of the Canadian state felb
on him. He was arrested, placed in
the internment camp at Welson-
After the “peace” he was deported
to Germany and has since been 2
tower of strength in the revolution—
ary movement there. He was a
Gommunist deputy in the Reichstag”
but escaped from the clutches of
the Nazis. Now the murderousi
Vargas government of Brazil has:
him under arrest, charged with be—
ing an agent of the Communist In—
ternational. The same kind of forg—
eries are being used to convict hint
that are trotted forth on all such
occasions, and the reactionaries:
are demanding his head. Only a-
mighty protest from the enlightened
peoples throughout the world cam
save him, either from death at the
hands of the Brazilian butchers or
deportation to Nazi Germany, which:
would be butchery just the same.

E iimes Jee Seer

Qn election day in Spain wher
the results were being published
that showed the anti-fascist forces
to be winning, Gil Robles, the fasc-
ist leader, was asked what he
thought of it. His answer was:
“Ballots will count.” He undoubt-
edly meant bullets as the events of
the last two weeks prove. The ma-—
chine-gun attack by the fascists on
the home of the left Socialist leader,
Largo Caballeros, is, however, &
futile answer to the demonstrations
of the determined Spanish workers-
These demonstrations are definite
instructions to the right-wingers im
the People’s Front that the agreed
program must be put into effect—
expropriation of the grandees, the
landowners, the church and the
holy orders and the lands to be di-
vided amongst the peasants; at the
Jesuits monopoly of education; for
the merciless crushing of the fascist
bands; for the restoration of the
jobs and compensation of all the
victims of October 1934. The mil-
lions of workers, peasants, petty
-bourgeois and intellectuals taking
part in these demonstrations are
not likely to be overawed by the
remnants of feudalism linked up
with the incompetent representa—
tives of big capital and if it comes
to civil war, Spain will be well on
the way to becoming a Soviet
state.

bd * * s

A book which we should all read
has just been published by the In-
ternational Publishers—‘Rulers of
America; A Study of Finance
Capital,” by Ann Rochester, claims
that J. P. Morgan and Go. controls
one-sixth of the total wealth of the
United States. Recent Congres-
sional and Senate inyestigations
have let us into a few secrets about
J. P. For instance, he doesn’t pay
any income tax. He only made 30
million dollars buying war material
for Britain and France. Some years
ago in an investigation into subway
contracts, after admitting that he
had received $250;000 “just for talk-
ine”’ to some officials, he was asked
if he considered that $10.00 a week
a proper wage for a longshoreman,
he roared back, “If that’s all he
ean get and he takes it, I should

atchewan.

say that it is enough.”

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