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C. WOREERS’ NEWS

Juiy 3, 1936

LOGGERS ARE
COMING 10 TOWN

(Continued from page 1)

feature has crept in which makes
the re-opening of many of the
gamps very indefinite.

That is the refusal of the organ-
ized mill-men of Washington and
@rezon to cut and process scab logs
#rom British Columbia.

Several booms of B.C. cedar logs
thave been tied up in Washington
“waters since the strike started here,
a#nd until B.C. operators agree to
deal with the union here, the logs
sill remain tied up.

It is not because of the high
“wages (which the daily press would
jike us to believe the loggers re
ceive) but because of the low wages
paid in B.C. that the U.S. coast
swyorkers have put the ban on BC.
jogs and lumber» The BC. shingle
industry has been disrupted because
of this ban.

The U.S. workers are not warring
against the B.C. mills and camps
Hhecause of any chauvinistic dislike
to the B.C. workers, but in order
fo prevent B.C. operators from
underselling on the American mar-
kket, and thereby helping to break
down wages and conditions to the
Jow level of the B.C. workers.

When the B.C. operators realize
¢hat the men here are entitled to a
fair wage, and accept union con-
ditions, then the ban will be lifted,
and the industry here will go ahead
again.

New Frontier Club
Writers’ Group Gets
Off To Good Start

A new Left writers’ group, to be
$nown as the New Frontier Club,
patterned after similar groups in
Britain and the United States, has
peen formed in Vancouver with an
§nitial membership of fifty. Head-
quarters have been established at
the Progressive Arts Club, 326 West
Hastings street, and mectings are
held Mondays at 3 p.m.

Officers have been elected as fol-
jows: Miss Dorothy Tuivesay, presi-
dent; D. C. MacNair, secretary;
Barry Mather, chairman, journalism
‘committee; Harold Griffin, chair-
man, drama and poetry comiu1ttee;
3B. A. Ward, chairman, fiction ¢com-
mittee. This executive will act as 4a
western editorial board to the New
Frontier, journal of radical literary
and political opinion recently
Jaunched in Toronto.

“he New Frontier Club wall act
as an autoomous unit within the
Progressive Arts organization and
will be represented on the PAC.
eontrol executive bY Harold Griffin.

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mass international picnic on the
waterfront north of Hastings Park,
Sunday last, a huge success. In the
forenoon the old boy scowled a little,
but when he saw who and what the
crowd was he beamed, and from
then on there was very little that
marred the day.

Youth triumphed over age in the
baseball contest between the Young
Communist League and the Com-
munity Party. However, the Y¥.C_L.
were forced to bow to the superi—
ority of the Granville Lunch. In
the tug-of-war the single men
seored over the old vets of mat-
rimony.

Glaiming a favored spot in the
attention of the crowd were the
boxing and wrestling shows staged
by the Vancouver Sports Club. Tt
was regrettable that the stage was
not set higher off the ground so
that the contest could have been
watched by a greater number. As
it was, only the first two or three
rows packed around the ring had a
yiew, and the talent was far too
good to be hidden from the mass.

Bill Kunka’s troup of dancers
gave their usual pleasing program
of folk dances.

The nominee of the Grandview
section won the ‘popular girl’ con-
test.

There were a number of running
races for men, women and children.
Good prizes went to the winners
of all contests and games.

For those who preferred to sit
and play, the bingo table proved
quite an attraction. It drew a full
house all afternoon.

The winners of the drawing were
as follows: First, R. Lewis, 324%
Powell Street; second, T. Gray,-2736
88th Avenue; third, M. Gasparine,
962 Renfrew Street.

B.C.E.R. PRIOR BARN
ACCIDENTS MOUNT

Fred Gowell, carpenter, employed
by the B.G. Electric at the Main and
Prior car-barns, was seriously in-
jured last Saturday when he fell
from the roof, which he was repair-
ing, into a repair pit.

At the hospital his injuries were
reported as a possible skull frac-
ture, a fractured wrist and other
injuries.

Several motormen have been in-
jured at this barn in the past few
months. Some of these men are be-
lieved to have received a shock from
the pole when on top of the car
which caused them to fall to the
floor below.

One man was injured while climb-
ing on top of the car, the hand-hold
on the car being so rotten that it
came away in his hand.

UNION OFFICIALS
COLLABORATE

(Continued from Page 1)

In face of the dissatisfachion ex-
pressed by the rank and file, Wil-
liamson and McKinley have since
endeavored to side-step the issue by
saying that no money Was handled
but that the broadcasts were paid
for by sponsors. But they refuse to
reveal who the sponsors were.
Anyone who has listened to the
broadcasts of Tom MeInnes can
readily see the plan to direct the
workers into a fascist trade union
movement in Canada.

Is the A.C.G. of L. to be used for
that purpose? When Williamson told
the seamen that if they could get
the pressure put on, the seamen
would be forced into the Wationat
Seamen’s Union, did he mean that
he was working for the shipping in-
¢erests, and the other industrial in-
terests, and that membership in 2
union favorable to the boss would
be obligatory to holding a job? In
short, did he mean that he was sgo-

ing to organize the seamey: e111
loggers into the A.@G4e. of GL. and
the operators were going to back

him up by forcing their employees
to join an A.C.C. of LL. union?

In view of the rapid strides to-
wards uniting the B.G. workers, as
in the case of the loggers and long-

shoremen, wuo have recently at-
filiated with the workers in the
Pacific

same industries on the Us.
Goast, therei s no question that the
operators are alarmed, and are look-
in= around for avenues less dis-
astrous to them, through which to
direct the organizational tide of the
workers.

That can be expected, but leaders
come the instrument of the employ-
ers to put this over. Tt is time for
the rank and file of the A.C.G. of L.
unions to check up on ¢his apparent
collaboration between their officials
and the shipping and lumbering: in-
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Children’s Summer Camp

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$987 Collection Assures
Outing for Many Poor
Children

To the time of nearly $1.000
($987 to be exact) the people of Van-
eouver demonstrated Saturday that
the under-privilezed children of Van-
couyer are not altogether forsotten.
Wor does the amount collected tell
all the story. During the busiest
part of the afternoon a virtual
cloudburst drove the canyassers and
public alike to cover. Attired in
summer clothes, the women and
children canvassers were foreed to
bow to the superiority of the ele-
ments, and from early afternoon on
only a fraction of the collectors were
out.

However, the proceeds of the tag
day assures a summer camp for the
under-privileged children of Van-
couver. It had been hoped by the
most optimistic that the collection,

and the donations already received 4

from organizations and individuais
would meet the full price of the
property ($1660.00), but as it is there
is sufficient to meet the first year’s
obligation, repair the buildings, and
outfit the camp for quite a few hun-
dred children this year.

The camp site is the old Bunfield
estate, 15 miles up the North arm
of Burrard Inlet, almost opposite the
Lake Buntzen power plant. There
are 125 acres in all, 2600 feet of
waterfrontage, much of it cleared
and with a large single Storey nouse,
and outbuildings. With a few altera-
tions and repairs the camp can be
put in shape in a week or so to ac-
comodate the first contingent of
children.

A Permanent Camp

Por the past six years a summer
camp has been sponsored for the
under-privaleged children by public
spirited people of Vancouver. Hach
year’s undertaking has been with
the perspective of that year only.
Every year a different site has been
obtained. This year, however, the
perspective is for a permanent Site,
and it was only after a thorough
search of camp sites that the Bam-
field property was chosen.

Tt is an ideal site which can be
developed to accommodate thousands
of children in a season, and within a
few seasons, with popular support of
the people of Vancouver, Should take
its place alone with the premier
children’s camps of the Pacific
Coast. t

The committee and trustees, all of
them giving their time voluntarily,
are from all walks of life; profes-
sional and business men, traae
union leaders, and rank and _ file

Splendid Start

workers. The trustees include Mrs.
Dorothy Steeves, M.i.A.; Mr. S. TF
Wallace, of Wallacé’s Groceterias:
Drs. W.. J. Curry and A. S. Murphy,
Jack Henderson, president Local No.
$82 Enginers: Jack Stevenson, pres-
ident Local No. 452 Carpenters: Mr.
BH. Peterson, Lumber and Savwmill
Workers of A-F.of L.; J. Anderson,
Firefighters’ Union No, 18.

Incidents

From reports of canvassers it 1s
evident that the public of Vancou-
ver is not yet aware of the broad,
non-partisan, non-sectarian nature
of the committee and the undertak-
ing. Collectors were snubbea alike
by aristocracy and workers. One
collector, stationed at Broadway and
Granville street was lectured for
quite a few minutes on the capital-
ists.’ necessity of changing the pres-
ent set up and putting in a workers’
government. “Look at Russia,” he
explained. “‘They don’t have to stand
on the street corners there to bum
money to give kids a week's holi-
day." Then he likened the canyvass-
ing here to the method in Germany
where the workers are filehed by
street collections, compulsory fac-
tory donations, and so on. The Jec-

turer apparently thought he was
talking to a staunch fascist.
A few minutes Jater a lady cold

the same canvasser that “if all you

lazy men would go to work you
would not have to bes.’’ Collectors
all over the city reported similar

experiences, Showine that different
Stratas of society felt that the tag
day was being sponsored by an op-
posite strata, not knowing that, al-
though the children of unemployed
and low-earnine workers would
benefit the most, prominent trades
unionists, and business and profes-
Sional men were among the spon-
Sors and trustees.

One thing that demonstrated the
Sincerity of those who yolunteered
their services was that of the hun-
dreds of cans that were put out, not
one went astray. Every can was re-
turmed to headquarters intact.

That someone aspired to become
“the meanest thief’ is shown oy the
report that a litle 17-year-old girl
canyassine at Carrall and Hastings
street was approached by a stranger,
and told that when her can was full
she was to give it to him to take
back to headquarters. As it hap-
pened the little girl’s mother, who
Was keeping a pretty close waten
on the little tot, happened along a
few minutes later, and the little sirl
related what had been told her. The
mother immediately reported. the
incident to headquarters, and a
committee man was sent around to
warn all collectors.

Con Jones’ Becomes

Bucket Of Blood

. Twice within a week police have
ben called to stop disorders at Con
Jones’ gambling joint.

Tuast Thursday night a squad of
police was again called to quell a
disturbance, despite the fact that a
police officer, paid by the city, is on
duty in a private gambling joint.

Two men under the influence of
liquor entered the premises and
were stopped by the bouncers and
the policeman. They turned and
fought, knocking -down three of
them, then out on the street one of
the men socked a policeman on the
nose, drawing blood.

Taken aback by the sudden on-
slaught, the best the flatfoot could
say was, “You coward.’’

The two men were fined $25 in
police court.

Government Employees’
Unions Amalgamate

OSAKA, Japan.—The two organi-
zations of the employees in govern-
ment enterprises in Osaka are pre-
paring for amalgamation. The two
unions, Kojokai and Junkojoki, have
been at odds for fourten years, fol-
lowing a split in the original or-
ganization. They are now prepar—
ing to hold an amalgamation con-
vention, forgetting all their past
differences. This development is 2
result of the strong feeling among
Osaka trade unionists for trade
union unity.

REFUGEES STAGE
REVOLT IN CHINA

KAIHSIEN, China.—Disturbances
are being created by thousands of
starving refugees in Kaihsien,
where the drought condition has
taken a turn for the worse. %

At least five refugees were exe-
cuted by the authorities, but the
looting carried out by the refugees
continues to spread like wild-fire.

GARMENT WORKERS
WIN AGREEMENTS

WINNIPEG, Man., June 30.—
(ALP)—The United Garment Work-
ers have obtained agreements with
nine big shops, employing some 600
of the total of S50 workers in the
local, according to announcement.

Ten of the smaller shops have so
far refused the union agreement
and it is expected that strike action
will be taken.

WORKER DROWNED
IN FALSE CREEK

Jacob Betschel, an employee of
the U.&. Sawnmnill, was drowned in
False Creek Friday, shortly after 3
p.m. Bitschel is believed to have
lost his footing in attempting to
leap to a scow moored at the saw-
mill dock.

Workmates of the drowned man
made a search for him and found
his hat floating in the water. An
hour and a half later the body was
found.

Children’s Summer
Camp

A first-class variety concert will
be staged in Clinton Hall, 2605
Bast Pender street this coming
Sunday, July 5th, at 8 p.m. in aid
of the Renfrew Children Group
for Summer Camp purposes.

Two plays will be shown by the
children, the False Creek Group
presenting “David Copperfield,”
and the Renfrew Group “Oh for
the Life of an Editor.’

Marie Abrams, the popular
dance orchestra leader will have
her company in a specially ar-
ranged fantasy entitled “Synco-
pated Rhythm.” Don’t miss hear-
ing her whistle and sing, and of
course acting as Master of Cere-
monies.

The Swedish Choir will be there
along with other first-class en-
tertainers.

Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Col-
lection.

ARCTIC EXPLORERS
KILLED BY STORM

ARCHANGEL, U.S:S.R., July 2.—
Ten members of the Soviet hydro-
graphical expedition in the Arcitic
died of hunger and exposure, an-
other was drowned and a twelfth
was rescued when a storm disabled
their small sloops, advices received
today said.

The party set out for a survey
from the hydrographical vessel,
Toros, en route to Barents Sea from

FRENCH FASCIST

The Ruling Clawss

FORCES RETREAT

(Continued from Page i)

cash from the country by the miui-
lions every day.

The People’s Government of Leon
Blum, behind which stands Social-
ists, Communists, trade unions and
liberals, in forcing the owners to
accept the workers’ conditions—in-
crease in wages, installation of shop
committees and collective bargain-
ing—has by its first resolute action
won the confidence of whatever still
wavered in the working class and
the petty bourgeoisie. Even the
arch-conservative London ‘Times
has to admit that Blum has now
gained the support of the over-
whelming majority of the French
people.

Leon Blum has done something
which fascism pretends to achieve
by terror, concentration camps and
the throttling of freedom. He, and
the Popular Front, have achieved
what is a miracle in France: a un-
ion of the common people.

Hitler Gang Nervous

_Im screaming more hysterically
than ever about the ‘chaos, con-
fusion and Bolshevism” that has
come in with the Blum govern-
ment in France, the German Nazi
press betrays extreme nervyous-
ness of the Hitler gang over re-
cent events here. “Nothing has
stirred the hope and the imagina-
tion of the masses in the Nazi
slave camp as much as the vic-
torious mass strikes in France,”
said a Norwegian Social-Demo-
erat member of parliament, who
just came out of the Reich where
he was in contact with the illegal
opposition.

During the last days of the strike,
the fascists decked themselves out
with Socialist emblems—three small
red arrows in their button holes—
and mixing with the workers, urged
them to attack the police. They
offered fire-arms and ammunition.
The workers themselves arrested
between 600 and 700 agents-provo-
eateur and handed them over to
the police.

Socialist Police Reinstated

Upon the demand of the police
force, the fascist prefect of police
has been dismissed, and the thou-
sands of Socialist gendarmes who
have been dismissed in past years
have been installed in their posi-
tion.

Three-quarters of the paris po-
lice now adhere to the People’s
Front, while the Republican
Guard has asked that its officers
pbesexamined one by one, in the
presence of a shop committee

made up of guardsmen, as to
their political orientation. The
trade unions, and the Socialist and
Communist Parties are swamped
with applications for membership
and the issue of new cards has
had to be limited to 5,000 a day.

Great problems still confront Leon
Blum. But the first problem—social
peace and national union—has been
settled. The people are with him.
Fascism, disastrously beaten, is in
full retreat. Instinctively the two
Fascist leaders, Fuehrer Hitler and
Duce Mussolini, are drawing to-
gether and sharpening the anti-
working class terror in their lands.

WORKERS AT
CONVENTION

(Continued from page 1)

By REDFIELD

“Go in the house right away before you catch sunstroke.”

on record as supporting the ‘‘red”’
label.

Visitors from B.C. are reminded
that only the ‘Red Juabel’” beer is
fair, and to act accordingly when
ordering.

A committee was elected to work
in cooperation with the Gommittee
of Industrial Organization (C.I.0.),
and a resolution passed unanimous-
ly, endorsing: the industrial form of
organization and maintaining their
position as an industrial organiza-
tion.

The six-hour day in the shingle
industry was confirmed. The em-
ployers had petitioned for an eight-
hour-day, but the shingle mill work=
ers of Washington and Oregon,

Archangel.

FIFTEEN KILLED
IN POLISH RIOT

WARSAW, Poland, July 2.—Fif
teen persons were killed and a score
wounded last night and today in
peasant disturbances in two sec-
tions of the Lwow district.

Several thousand persons stormed
a jail at Krzeczowice attempting to
release strike agitators. Police fired
into the mob and killed eight.

COMMUNISTS TO
AID STEEL DRIVE

HAMILTON, Ont., June 29-—
(ALP)—Full weight of the Hamil-
ton sections of the Communist

Party will be thrown behind the
drive of the Trades Council here to
organize the steel workers of the
city into the Amalgamated Asso-
ciation of Iron, Steel and Tin Work-
ers of North America.

the Royal Theatre on Sunday, July
5th, at § p.m., to discuss the recent
euttine off relief of the single trans-
ients.

These men are being cut off relief
without any chance to go to work
on the highways or railroads show-
ing the only thins the officials leave
for them is to go out on the roads
and be clubbed by the police who
are patrolling ail freight trains.

Good speakers. Ail welcome.

A mass meeting will be held in |

32,000 strong, flatly refused to ex-
tend the work day. A six-hour day
is general in the shingle industry
throughout the two states.

A drive is to be launched to or-
sanize the Pacific Lumber Inspec-
fion Bureau men. The P.LIB. men
of Bellingham are already organized
100 percent into the union. =

It was reported that 5,000 loggers
of Omak, Veash., were on strike.
This strugele was looked upon as
the spearhead of the bosses’ attack
on the organizations of the Worth
Wrest. and the other unions were de-
termined to lend all possible support
to the Omak strikers- Already 27
tons of food had been sent in.

The Convention also pledged both
financial and moral support to the

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YOUNG PEOPLE’S PICNIC
The young people of the east end
will hold a picnic on the flats (near
Campbell Avenue and Prior Street),
Sunday, July 12, at 1 p-m-

We invite all youth and their par-

ents to participate. We plan on races

for the children, softball tourna-
ments, wrestling exhibitions, a2
musical program, singing, refresh-
ments, ete. The picnic committee
will meet Friday, July 3, at 7:30
p-m., at 805 East Pender Street. We
extend an invitation to all youth
and children’s clubs of Grandview
and the east end to have one or
more delegates present

SERBIAN WORKERS’ PICNIC
The Serbian Workers’ Club will
hold a pienic on the waterfront,
north side ef Hastings Park, Sun-
day, July 5. Games, sports, prizes
and refreshments.

C.L.D.L. WEEKLY DANCE
Ukrainian Branch of the Canadian
Tabor Defence League will hold a
weekly dance every Saturay at
805 Hast Pender Street. Dancing
from 9 to 12. Good floor. Good or-
chestra. Everybody welcome.

Results of drawing held at 606
Bast 44th Avenue, June 26, 1936:
Ist, G199; 2nd, A131; 3rd, B25.

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GATHERING JULY 8

On Wednesday, July 8, at § p.m.,
a youth rally will take place in the
Cedar Cottage, C.C.F. Hall, at 3694
Commercial drive.

The purpose of this meeting
be to hear the reports of the two
delegates who represented the So-
ecialist youth of British Columbia at
the recently concluded Canadian
Youth Congress in Ottawa. The dele-
gates, Mary Gower and Harold
Winch, will explain just how unity
was achieved between youth organ-
izations of every creed and opinion
in Canada, on the question of Peace,
Wreedom and for the betterment of
the economic, educational, cultiwral
and recreational conditions of Can-
ada’s youth.

The two main products of the
Congress, the Declaration of Rights
for Canadian Youth and the Youth
Act which will be ratified and
amended by all organizations for
presentation to the Federal Parlia-
ment, will also be explained.

Following the report by the dele-
gates there will be a question period
and then dancing will continue until
12 o’clock. No admittanee is being
charged, only a collection will be
taken to help defray expenses.

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