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B.C. WORKERS’ NEWS

August 28, 1936

American Seaman Tortured |
In Hitler’s Nazi Dungeons

Gov. Martin PI Pledges Aid |
and Unions Asked to
Renew Efforts

SBHATTILE, August 25.—Lawrence
Simpson, Seattle, Wash., seaman,
s~who has been held for over a year
‘hy the German seeret pelice faces
4he possibility of a long sentence in
A Wazi political prison because he
Was in possession of anti-fascist
Siterature aboard the S.S. Manhat-

tan. of the United States lines, ac-
-eordinge to Gifford Cochran, well-
known Weyw York philanthropist.
“who returmed recently from Ger-
many,

Cochran went to Germany in an
effort to secure Simpson’s release
and to obtain for him defence
-eounsel provided by his father, John

-G. Simpson, of Seatle, and the In-
‘ternational Labor Defense. Cochran
“was permitted to see Simpson only
after repeated representations on
hiis behalf had been made by Consul
Raymond H. Geist to the German
government. The German court of-
4icials so arranged the interview
that Simpson believed it was ‘a trap
and refused to accept the services of

the jawyer Cochran recommended.
Prisoner, Like a Ghost
‘Gochran deseribed Simpson as

“Jooking like a ghost after his year
#pent in the hands of the Hitler
police.”

“Simpson is one of the most heroic
mien I have ever met,’’ Cochran said.
“Wis refusal to accept the counsel
Was proof of that. It was a terrible
4hing for me, but I could not let
him know that the selection had
heen approved by the International
Zahor Defense and other friends. He
¢hought it was a scheme cooked up
by the German court to have him

accept a lawyer who would betray

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“7 Wad never seen Simpson before,
Dut just before I left for Germany
Z had a talk with his father, who
showed me pictures of his boy. He
yas a fine-lookine fellow in the best
ef health. That was not the kind
of a man I ‘saw in Moabit prison,
Berlin. The man I saw was broken
$n health. He looked as though he
moisht have been tortured. He was
aie, weak, and thin.’’

“The possibility of torture is not
anlikely for I was informed by
German authorities that they were
iolding him in order to find German
accomplices. They said they had al-
ready arrested one German and had
connected him with the case. From

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? my conversations with the Germen
officials I gathered that there was
a general understanding that the
case Was a preposterous one, but the
German clet police, who origin-
ally arrested Simpson would not
suffer its prestige to be damaged by
releasing Simpson.”
More Union Action Needed

Mr. Geist, the Berlin consul, re-
ported haying received thousands of
letters and communications from
American trade unions and other
groups requesting Simpson's re-
Jease. Cochran commented, “Waith-
out question, the American govern—
ment can do much more than it has
done. I hope that the protest action
iaken by the Seattle city council and
many trade unions will have that re-
sult. It is ms opinion that the most
important work to be done to save
Simpson is right in this country.”

The Seattle Simpson Defense Com-—
mittee received a recent communica-
tion from Governor GC. D. Martin of
the State of Washington and pledged
his support to the State Department
in any efforts they might make in
the interest of Lawrence Simpson.

The International Labor Defense
are seeking ways to reassure Simp-
Son on the selection of defence
counsel. Ordinary mails will not
reach Simpson in Moabit prison.

LIBERAL SLOGANS
OBSCURE ISSUES

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the rotten record of the Pattullo
government and is making this
gang of brewery tools render an
account of their actions before the
people, an accounting from which
they shy, while trying to fill the
minds of the voters with irrelevent
trash and the usual election hokum.

The Pattullo government of re-
action is known for what it is—and
despite the windjamming and circus
ballyhoo of the kept men of Pat-
tullo, the hard-headed voters of Bur-
rard will pile up their votes to send
Forester back to his exploiting
without governmental endorsement
and the halfcamouflaged fascist
Patterson back to his bone straight-
ening.

Spelxanig to a crowded meeting
in the Alma Academy Wednesday
night, Dr. Js Lyle Telford,
G.@.F. eandidate in the Burrard by-
election, aroused sreat enthusiasm
when he assailed the provincial min-
ister of labor, Hon. George Pearson,
claiming that the gentleman didn’t
know that he was talking about
when he said that a surplus of labor
Was needed.

Telford warned his hearers that
this winter the number of unemploy-
ed in Canada would total 1,800,000,
as conditions of employment were
sure to get worse instead of better.

The candidate was supported by
Grant McNeil, M.P. for North Van-
couver, who eriticized both Liberal
and Conservative parties in Ottawa.
He said that the Mackenzie King
government was just as great a
Santa Claus for the railways as the
Bennett government, having made
them 2 grant of $3,500,000 for relief
camp work. Thus the government
pays for the work done by the relief
camp boys for the €.P.R. and the
C.N.R.

McNeil said the government could
not find money for social services,
but had no difficulty in discovering
the huge sum of $27,500,000 for na-
tional defence. That sum added to
the $6,000,000 passed by parliament
for police work, made the cost of
maintaining forces of all kinds up to

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LONDON, Eneiland.—wWhile thou-
sands of British shipyard workers
are idle, and existing under the
Means Test, work that might have
gone to British shipyards has been
diverted to German yards. These
orders have been placed in order to

get over the currency restrictions
of the Nazi finance chief, Dr.
Sehacht.

Here are the facts:

The British firm Unilever Ltd,
states The Public Ledger (May 7,

.1936), placed an order for PIFTHEN
TRAWLERS at a cost of £350,000
to be built in German yards.

The Daily Telegraph. April 28;
41936—‘‘On April 1 German shipyards
had orders on their books from
British firms for 44 vessels of
an ageregate of 133,924 sross regis-
tered tons. . , Most of the vessels
or-

WHO OWNS CAN.

CAPIT. TAL?

The amount of money inyes
Canada estimated to be
lions. Included in this vast
the bonded indebtedness of do-
muinion, provincial and municipal
sovernments, railway investments,
manufacturing industries, mines,
electric light and power concerns,
banks, insurance and mortgage
companies. Ownership of homes of
small frame is not ineluded.

Of the total amount of $18 bil-
lions 22 per cent is owned in the
United States, 16 per cent in Great
Britain, one-half of one per cent in
other couniries, and 62 and one-half
per cent in Canada.

Canadian investments abroad
amount to one billion dollars in the
United States, 109 million dollars im
Great Britain, and 664 million dollars

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sum are

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in other countries.
Canadian-owned industry in the
United States is 10 to 12 per cent

that of the American investments
in Canada. The United States owns?
one-quarter of the manufacturing
coneerns in this country, one-third
of the electric power, two-thirds of
the natural gas output, and controls
over a third of the mining.

American-owned enterprises con-
trol 64 per cent of the rubber goods
output in Canada; 34 per cent of the
pulp, paper and lumber output; 42
per cent of the machinery output;
82 per cent of the automobile out-
pul, and 68 per cent of the electrical
apparatus.

LOGGERS’ WAGES
NO HIGHER NOW

VICTORIA, Aug. 25.—An inerease
over last year of nearly 60 per cent
in British Columbia's lumber ex-
ports this month was reported to-
day by the forestry branch follow-
ing receipt of the Pacific Lumber
Inspection Bureau report.

The province exported about 70
per cent of the lumber sent out of
the Pacific Northwest.

Leadine shipments were made to

the United Kingdom, which re-
ceived 47,073,857 board feet. Austra-
lia was next, receiving 13,068,520
board feet.

Other shipments included: Africa,
9957,280; China, 8,897,902; Japan,

5,563,799: South Sea Islands, 2,187,-
214: and West Indies, 1,428,672

Exports to eight additional coun-
tries, all of which received less than
1,000,000 board feet, brought the
total export for the month to $84,-
116,515 board feet.

This total showed a slight de-
erease over last month when there
were 86,427,517 board feet exported.

Let Us Give

Generously!

U. L. F. T. A. Launches
Campaign to Liquidate
Debt on on Hall :

By IK. S. .. GERYLUIK

SUMMERLAND, B.C. — The
Ukrainian Labor-Parmer Temple
Association own Labor Temples
practically in every city, town and
rural districts in the Dominion.
These numerous structures were
erected from the pennies, nickels
and dimes donated by the workers
and farmers who fully understood
the important part they will take
in their struggles for a better life.
These Labor Temples are regular
homes for the workers and farmers
to gather and discuss their vital
problems of the class struggle.
They have served and aided the
participants of many struggles in
the various industries.
Let us remind ourselves of the
struggles that took place in the
mining, transportation, lumber,
waterfront and relief unemployed
projects, etc.
We have the Ukrainian Labor

'Spain’s Woman Leader Asks

The Ruling Clawss

By REDFIELD

Defence Of Democracy

On the night of July 29, Dolores
Ibarruri (La Pasionaria), broadcast
the following declaration of the
Central Committee of the Commu-
nist Party of Spain over the Mad-
rid radio station, explaining the
position of the Spanish Commun-
ist Party toward the Spanish goy-
ernment and democracy:

Now that the counter-revolution-
ary movement of the traitors to the
Republic is approaching its end, its
instigators turn in their impotent
rage and despair to foreign coun-
tries. and are spreading a mad lie
with the purpose of alarming other
countries and enabling the reaction-
ary elements there to create a state
bf unrest and. disquiet. It is their
hope and wish thereby to force
other governments to armed inter-
vention in our country. The fact ;
that the Communist Party is in the |
vanguard of the defense of the
democratic liberties of the Republic |
and of the government based on ;
the People’s Front is being used as
4 pretext for a distortion of fact,
for asserting that Communism has -
been established in Spain, and that
our country is plunged into anarchy
and disaster.
What is happening in Spain? We
are anxious to proclaim it to the
whole world, to shout it everywhere,
so that we may frustrate these base
manoeuvers of the reactionaries and
betrayers of their fatherland and
its flags.

Fight For Democracy.
But the victors of 1933 have not
been able to accept their defeat in
February, 1936. They have violated
their oaths of allegiance, their
promises of adherence to the gov-
ernment formed freely by the peo-
ple. They haye risen against the
Republic, determined to drown in
blood the strivings of the people,
although the sole wish of the people
is to live in freedom and justice.
The struggle going on in our
country at the present time is thus
the struggle of Democratic, Liberal
and Republican Spain, against the
reactionary and fascist forces en-
deavoring to establish a regime of
terror and blood in our country, and
seeking for accomplices in their
villainy

Will Defend Republic.
The Communist Party, conscious
of its historical responsibility, stands
ready to defend the Republic to the
utmost, to defend democracy, to de-
fend the liberties achieved in
ploody struggles with reaction For
reaction has been a calamity in our
eountry, retarding its cultural and
industrial development and keeping
Spain back behind the other coun-
tries.
The revolution which has been
carried out in our country is the
bourgeois democratic revolution
which was achieved over a century
ago in other countries. France for
instances And we Communists are
the front rank fighters in this stru-
ele against the forces representing:
in Spain today the elements of the
dark ages.

Appeal to World.

Let these generals, these thou-
sandfold traitors, cease to con-
jure up Communism as a spectre, a
pretext for isolating the people of
Spain in their magnificent ficht
against those who are endeavoring
to make of Spain a tragie country,
a country of the past, where the
military caste, the priests, and the
jocal authorities, are the unre-
stricted lords of life and property.

mon fishermen’s strike and the
strike of the Bridge River gold
miners. ‘

order, the order of peace and de-
| mocracy.

{/uation in Spain!

(NINE STRIKES

WON IN 1935

VICTORIA. B.C —Labor disputes
were more widespread and serious
in 1935 than in any year since the
erisis began, accordine to Labor De-
partment figures just released.

There were 23 strikes last year
of which nine were won by the em-
ployers and nine by the workers. In
three the workers made partial gains
and two lapsed with settlements. Ai-
together 7.321 men were involved.

Outstanding were the waterfront
workers’ strike, the halibut and sai-

It is a lie fo say that chaos reigns!
A lie when the traitors to the Re-
public speak of a catastrophic sit-

In this historical hour the Com-
munist Party. faithful to its reyvo-
lutionary principles and respecting
the will of the people, takes its
stand side by side with the govern-
ment which is the expression of this
will, side by side with the Republic,
with democracy.

Weither insinuations nor slanders,
nor even lies, will induce us to relax

in our efforts in defense of the
people against these executioners,
against the criminals who have

stained the soil of our country with
blood.

We know that the reactionaries
and fascists of some other countries
are conspiring against the freedom
of our people.

Fight Intervention.

Pm afraid Reginald’s

1?

this month !

workings himself into an early
grave—this is the second time he

has gone to the factory

t

Democrats of England, France, ot
all countriesr Prevent by every
available means any intervention in
our country, any Support for an at-—
tack on democracy and the Repub-
lic. We are fully able to manage
by ourselves; this is proved by the
defeats inflicted on our foes; we are
able to win the victory over them.
The struggle of the peoples of Spain
is the struggle of the people reacting
to the criminal attacks of the reac-
tionary military caste; it is the
struggle against the warmongers.
Help us! Let no one raise a hand
against Spain! The final defeat
which we shall inflict on fascism is
a deadly blow at world reaction.
Help us to prevent democracy from
being suppressed. For if this should
come about, you may be sure that
it would be followed by the out-
break of war, and this is what we
are all anxious to prevent. Stay the
hand of the interventionists! The
sovernment of Spain is a govern-
ment which emerged from the elec-
tion victory of February 16, and we
support and defend it because it is
the rightful representative of the
people fighting for democracy and
freedom,

Long live a great and flourishing
Spain, united action with all the
democratic people of the world!
Long live a free and happy Spain!
Long live the struggle of the people
against reaction and fascism! Long
live the democratic Republic:

OPPOSITION TO
BRITISH EMPIRE

We Communists are defending 2
rezime of freedom and democracy:
side by side with the Republicans,
the Socialists, and Anarchists, we
shall prevent Spain from retrosress-
ing, from falling behind in the ad-
vanee of humanity, cost what it

may. We do not forget that his-
tory does not progress in sudden
bounds, and we adapt our policy to

the needs of the moment and, the
emergency of our people.

Brothers of Latin America, Bel-
sium, France, England, of all coun-
tries, toiling masses of the whole
world, intellectuals! In Spain the
deeds of vandalism are solely those

Temple in Vancouver which is
burdened with a debt to the amount
of $6,000 which must be wiped off
at onee. This debt to an individual
may seem fearful, but to a mass or
eanization it should not be so, if
we sincerely and collectively respond
generously, this debt can be wiped
clean off the sheet.

There has been ca mpaisens
launched in the past tow ards paying
part of this debt, put it was decided
by the provincial members of the
Ukrainian Labor-Farmer mass or
eanizations of British Columbia to
launch a final campaign to pay this
debt in full, appealing to every
worker and farmer in city, town
and country to make this campaign
successful, and once for all discard

for British account haye been
dered for the purpose of utilizing
Britain's ‘frozen’ credits in Ger-
many.”’

So what? Hitler’s bombing planes
are- being fitted ‘with Rolls-Royce
aero engines; Armstrong Vickers
supply the tanks; British ship-
owners give orders for new ships;
and the Bank of England supplies
Hitler with the cash.

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devote most of our attention to-
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MOTHERS’ COUNCIL NOTES

The Mothers’ Couneil, who
sponsored sending ten children
the
svill themselves take
so to the camp.

important
every one of us in British Co-
lumbia to work hard and collectively

assistinge the

Let us all use Stz ikhanovite methods

and become the real Stakhanovites.
The campaign is near an end but
let us not be beaten and respond

have
to
summer camp at Orholme Beach,
a week off and

being committed by the rebel gen-
erals. They raze to the ground the
villages through which they pass,
they have destroyed all the wealth
accumulated by the people in longs
years of heroic and strenuous ef
forts. The Militia, loyal to the Re-
public, the Communists, the Social-
ists, Anarchists, and Republicans,
all these respect houses and goods,
protect the monks, preserve real

CAPE TOWN, South Africa.—Dr.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Jack Taylor will speak at South
Will @.Gie. at Forty-seventh and
Fraser street, on Sunday evening
at 8 pm. Subject: “Conditions in
Spain.”

Also at the same hall a monster
whist drive and dance will be held
Saturday evening at $ p.m. Dancing
from 10 p.m. till 12 p-m. Proceeds
in aid of Burrard by-election cam-
paisn funds. Good prizes. Admission
15 cents. Everybody welcome.

BE SURE AND VOTE
VANCOUVER. Under the Hlec-
tions Act passed several years ago
voters who do not use their fran-
chise are automatically cut off the
list and must be reinstated before
they can vote again.

The registrar gives formal notice
to those who do not yote, and then
the voter must take the necessary
steps to haye his name returned to
the list.

SOCIET Y ‘APPEASE’
CHILDREN’S HUNGER

HALIFAX, N.S. Aug. 20-—
While some twelve hundred guests
were being entertamed at a gar-
den party, staged at Government
House here, by Mrs. W. H. Covert
and Lieutenant-Governor Covert,
the guests were astounded, when
a crowd of well over a hundred
hungry children gathered on the
wall surrounding the garden and
demanded food.

As the number of children grew
very rapidly, it was necessary for
Mrs. Govert to order ice cream and
eake for every child present in
order to get them to leave.

Garden parties are held fre-
quently among the “Society folli”
ot Halifax, but this is the first
time hungry children were ‘enter-
tained’ ‘The Halifax relief rate
per child (amy age) is 20 cents per
weelk, it is no wonder they demand

1G

TUESDAY,

D. F. Malan, leader of the opposition
Nationalist party in the South Afri-
can House of Assembly, told a meet—
ine of 2,000 Nationalists that the
party could and must get a republic
in South Africa.

He outlined the steps necessary
to achieve one along constitutional
lines as follows

{. Abolition of the title “British
subject.” :

2. Complete break with imperial

conferences,
2 Refusal to attend the corona-
tion of the King.
4. Abolition of
ernors-general.
5. Substitution of a president for
the Kine.
6. The head of

“Imported” gov-

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