$ }ling of fraternal delesates Your subscription has expired if the number on your label below this number Renew it NOW. | B.C. WorkKERS NEws The problems of the unemployed must be taken up by the Trade Union movement of Canada. FULL NO. 89 Published Weekly VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1936 Single Copies: 5 Cents SS VOL. ID., No. 37 STARVING YOUTH GET CALLOUS TREATMENT Low Pay, Broken Promises Cause Of Bakery Strike < Bread Prices Boosted While Wages Re- mained Same MORALE IS HIGH Strike action was taken last Sat- urday by 83 bakery salesmen of Robertson’s Bakery, when their de- mand for the Bakery Salesmen’s Union scale of wages of $23.00 per week was turmed down by C. S. Boyd, manager of the bakery. Seven bakers joined the strike on Sunday in sympathy and for the right of collective bargaining, a point also affecting the salesmen. A. delegation of three strikers in- formed your reporter that wages paid prior to the strike were $15.00 per week plus a commission of four per cent wholesale and six per cent retail, making a weekly average wage of $20.44, less shortages: When asked if they had an answer to the quarter page advertisements which appeared in the local dailies, whereir it Bave supposed wages paid the employees durine the week of Sentember 7 to 12, and varied from $19.00 ot $29.00, the strikers answered that had the wage scale been taken from two weeks previous, it would have shown $20.44 instead of the $22.44. : Some 18 months ago the em- ployees were promised a 10 per cent raise, when at that *time the price of bread was jumped from 6 to 7 cents. Another 5 per cent in- crease was promised the entire staff to become effective the same day as the price of bread was increased a half cent, holidays with pay were also promised, but promises were only made to be broken, none of them have been fulfilled. These increases in the price of bread have netted the bakery a re- turn of approximately $45.00 per Wagon per week for 3.000 loaves. Of this the salesmen have received nothing apart from a dollar a week (Continued on page 2) See BAKERY STRIKE 1,000 NEW WATERFORD MINERS OUT ON STRIKE NEW WATERFORD, N-S:, Sept. 21. — (ALP) — Nearly 1,000 New Waterford coal miners are on strike demanding higher pay for loading coal at the pits. Dayshift men of No. 12 Colliery walked out when the management refused to pay them for loading coal eut but not loaded by the previous shift, They were joined by the night Shift and the colliery is now idle. CANADA TALKS PREPAREDNESS HALIFAX, N-S.. Sept. 23—(ALP) —Accompanied by Canada’s military higsher-ups, Major-General €. FF. Constantino, adjutant-seneral, and Brigadier A Clyde Caldwell, master- general of the ordnance department, lan Mackenzie, Canadian minister of national defense, when interviewed here said that “Should the United States become involved in a war with some other nations Canada must be in a position to prevent establishment of a submarine or air base on her coasts.” “Canada."’ he continued, “has no thousht of aggression, but must be in a position to fulfil her obligations as regards neutrality,” The minis- ter thousht that any program of defense for Canada must be centrea mainly on air and naval units. PORT STANLEY, Ont., Sept. 21. —(ALP)—Longshoremen here re- ceived word yesterday they had been granted the five-cent an hour imerease in pay for which they went out on strike about ten days ago. They will now receive 40 cents an hour. When their request for the in- crease was refused the steyedores refused to unload the package freighter Selkirk, and members of the crew had to remove the cargo. Lumber Workers Endorses C.I.O. Unity of all workers in the Paci- fic Coast logesinge and lumber indus- try, and of all industrial workers Senerally, struck a hish note at the Convention of the Lumber and Sawmill Workers, held at Portland on September 18, 19 and 20. In attendance were 600 delegates from the industry in B.C., Wash- ington, and Oregon, with a sprink— from Abe Muir, Inter- of the other industries. national representative * United Brotherhood of Carpenters } and Joiners, and William Dalrymple, intermmational G: AT W.. -A; deliberations. Delegates from the International TLongshoremen’s Association, from representative of the took part in the the Marine Wiremen, and from the | Sailors’ Union of the Pacific, creden- | tialled by the Maritime Wederation of the Pacific and by their indivyid- ual unions brought greetings from the maritime workers, and pledees | of full support to the lumber work- | ers of tne coast, Coast Federation Probably foremost amongst the /Many progressive acts of the con- _Yention was the setting up of a fed- )eration of all unions in the indus- try. A note of Intemational Brother- hood was emphasized by the rousing acclaim which followed the election of Harold Pritchett, president of the B.C. Coast District Council, to head the newly-formed federation. Morris of Aberdeen, Wash-, and Weber of the Columbia District Council, were chosen for wice-pres- ident and secretary respectively. Phe executive is to be made up of (Continued on page 2) See CONVENTION LUMBER AND SAWMILL WORKERS BUILD PACIFIC COAST FEDERATION |/SEINERS’ BRANCH Portland Convention Of CHARTER INSTALLED On Saturday, Septémber i9th, at Alert Bay, a meeting of the former Seimers Section of the Fishermen and Cannery Workers’ Industrial Union was held to install the branch charter of the Salmon Purse Seiners Union of the Pacific, af- filiated to the International Sea- men’s Union, A.F.of L. Conrad Eispe, TSU. representa- tive, came over from Seattle for the occasion and after a full out- line of the work of the union across the line and the need for interna- tional unity and co-operation in the fishing industry, presented the chairman of the meeting with the charter. In reply, the chairman in the name of the Vancouver Seiners ac- cepted the charter and voiced the opinion that Vancouver Tocal No. 6 as the first union with inter- national affiliations, would be fol- lowed in the near future by other unions in the fishing industry of British Columbia. The officers of the Wancouver Local No. 6 will be elected on or about November 20th, when all Seiners will return from the grounds. Lakehead Firemen Would Unionize PORT ARTHUR, Ont, Sept. 23.— (ALP)—GCity firemen here desire or- fanization and indications show that they would be included in the Port Arthur Trades and Labor Council to the T-L.G. meeting here. An address on “Consumers Co- operation” was given to the meet- in= by Miss Helen Lanto, secretary of the Women’s Co-operative Guild of the U.S.A. Ernest Bakewell Deserts C.C.F. For Connell Group Ernest Bakewell, M.L.A. for Mac- Kenzie constituency, resigned from the C.CF., B.C. section on Wrednes- day, and thus follows the trio of expelled M.L.A-’s headed by the Rey. Robt. Connell, who refused to abide by the decisions of the @-CP. conyention held Carly in July. €:CF. headquarters declined to make any comment on Bakewell’s resignation, but Don Smith stated that the Provincial Executive are Still abiding by the decision as laid down at the convention, whereby MEL.A.’s were placed under the con- tral and discipline of the executive 25 the governine body between the * conventions. Mr, Bakewell in his statement to the executive affirms his responsi- bility to the electorate of Macikenzie riding and repudiated the C.CRr. executive which he termed ‘a poli- tical machine.’ Three of the former seven M.L.A4.’s Still loyal to the movement are EF. E. Winch, Burnaby; H. E. Winch, Wancouver East, and Dorothy Steeves, North Vancouver. Those who haye been expelled from the @.CF_ are: Robt. Connell, Victoria; Jack Price, Vancouver Hast; R. B. Swailes, Delta. E. Bake- well has pledged his support to the dissenters. Suffer Little Children The Puyda’s whose little tots have tasted the hunger pangs and a jail, 2a memory never to be forgotten. —Photo courtesy Unemployed and Part Time Workers’ Assn. COMMUNIST PARTY LEADERSHIP — BIDS FAREWELL TO JACK TAYLOR Secretary B.C. Section Banquetted On Eve of Departure A delightful gathering was held at the home of a local comrade when members of the provincial ex- ecutive, their wives and a few friends, gathered to bid farewell to Jack Taylor, who left for the Bast on Tuesday. Th gathering sat down to tables loaded with sood things to eat at 9:15 p.m. Tom Hwen, member of the Central Committe of the party, acted as master of ceremonies in his own inimitable way, Comrade Ewen, in stating the reasons for the Set-tosether, paid great tribute to the work of Jack Taylor in guiding the party through the difficult Yperiod during the changine of its tactical line. He pointed out the heavy ‘tesponsibilities which CGom- rade Taylor had to shoulder and ex- pressed the very deep reeret of the provincial executive in losing such a valued political leader. ‘‘But,’’ he said, “‘while we are losing Jack, he will not be lost to the movement, and we hope that before many years pass we will have) him with us again.’ ; FPolowing Comrade’ Ewen, the In- termationale was sung and every- body got down to the business at hand—the eats. It was observed that “Slim’’ Evans ean distinguish himself in other fields besides that of organization. Undoubtedly, he showed a great appreciation of the (Continued on page 3) See JACK TAYLOR < Refused Relief Then iven Six Month Jail Sentence For Selling Flowers On Vancouver Streets Sixteen Single Men Jailed for Trying to Live Sentences oi six months were meted out in two cases of the un- employed in police court Wed- mesday when Gordon Grant, Canadian Labor Defence League counsel, asked! leave to appeal the decision. fhe cases were adjourned till Monday and the men released on their own recognizance on con- dition that they would not appear on the streets selling flowers. Arrested and charged with ‘“‘ob- structing,” sixteen unemployed transient men were lodged in police eells on Tuesday Unable to gain relief through sev— eral measures they have taken, these men, many of them camp boys, went out on the streets with arti- ficial flowers which they offered to the public for any sum the citi- zens felt like giving. Attached to the baskets were Signs bearing the inscription, “Homeless,” ‘No Work,” “No Re- lief,’ “Buy a Flower’’; and for sev- eral days the men stood in front of Spencer’s, the Hudson’s Bay Co., stores and other places on Gran- ville and Hastings streets, unmo- lested until Tuesday, when they were arrested by police. Break The Big Business Press Monopoly GRANDVIEW PRESS COMMITTEE LEADS DISTRICT IN ORGANIZATIONAL PLANS in from all points. Railway extra gangs are Setting up functioning press committees to carry 9n press work not only on their gang, but are also covering the districts surround- ing the location of their camps. Some outside points Such as Nanaimo and Victoria have not as yet advised us of their plans. How about a line from these points regarding plans for the October drive? Tickets are selling rapidly on the special introductory offer of five weeks’ subs. on the B.C. Workers News and Weekly Clarion; one worker from Vancouver Bast has already sold thirty-five subs. and collected 38.00 on his. collection card. He is closely followed by another Vancouver East worker who has sold 23 subs and collected a substantial sum on his eollection card. Don’t forget the grand social evening put on by the Central Drive Committee, Wednes- day, Sept. 30th at 339 West Pender. Grandview press committee leads all other committees in organizational plans to put the joint B.C. Workers’ News-Clarion October press drive over the top. A co-ordinating conference is being held for that district at the Labor Temple, 805 East Pender street, on Sunday, September 27. Representatives from trade unions, mass organizations, etc. will formulate plans at this conference for a thorough canvassing of the district, shops, mills, factories, and the waterfront, with the object of increasing circulation, and breaking of big business press monopoly. plans to be worked out including the holding of a large affair, such as a bazaar for all or- ganizations within the Grandview area. The Grandview press committee is out to lead the October drive in this district. From present indications B.C. is going over the top in this drive. The response to the cen- tral drive committee’s appeal for progressive organizations to assist in this drive is comins QOOO0G0G09000808090099099990989090000089008090000008000090000000000000000000 Further at 8 p.m. fe) fe) fe) 8 GIVE “ER THE GAS AND LET’S TRAVEL THE $2500 ROUTE! 8 e) fe) fe) fe) S Pee ee eee ECR e ene eee reer 3 () $500 $1000 31500 $2000 $2500 g GOOOO9GO000000090000000909909000000000000000000000000000000000000000000008 Canucks Offer Spanish Gov’t Their Services Doctors, Nurses, Pilots Volunteer But Not Accepted TORONTO, Ont., Sept- 22—(ALTP) —News that plans are simmering to send a hospital unit to the gov- ernment side in Spain, manned by Canadian doctors, nursés and drivers, has brought a mild epidemic of volunteers to. the offices of the Associated Labor Press. Graham Spry, who made the tentative announcement of the hos- pital unit plan in Kitchener, was in Ottawa today and could not he reached on the recruiting angle. The Committee to Aid Spanish Dem- ocracy knew nothing about any- thing of this kind, although the acting-chairman, the Rev. Gen H.- Spence, said-that the Committee will support the project if it ma- tures. The Leasue Against War and Fascism and the Co-operative Gom- monwealth Wederation, all inter- viewed on the subject, were also in the dark. At the Spanish Consul here. Col. Robbins said today that he had re- ceived applications from doctors. nurses and pilots who had volun- teered their services on behalf of the People’s Front government. Wone of the applications were ac- cepted. Six people, inecludine one trained nurse, one male nurse, two printers, one newspaperman and one truck driver, telephoned or visited the Associated Labor Press office in one day and offered their services. PREFERS DEATH TO JUGOSLAVIA Two Noranda Miners Secretly Deported Out ef Canada MONTREAL, Que., Sept. 23:— (ALP)—John Shulentich, Noranda striker, deported on board the Cun- ard liner Aurania from this port on Friday, would “rather be shot then sent to Jugo-Slayvia.”’ Friends who tried to see him be- fore the ship sailed found that Shulentich was locked in the ship’s “brig” under suard, it became known here today. Matt Persil, shipped out of Canada at the same time on board the C.P-R. ship Duchess of York, was allowed the freedom of the ship and Was visited on deck by friends be- fore sailing Both Persil and Shulentich were sentenced in 1934 for takine part in the Noranda strike of that year and were ordered deported. Fifteen others sentenced with them have been released. Friends of Shulentich report that he is ill as the result of imprison- ment and he is reported to have said that he “wanted to leave Can- ada the way he came, a healthy man-*” Both men face imprisonment or death when they reach their home- land, fascist Juso-Slavia. Collective Farms Productive MOSCOW, U.S.S.R., Sept. 22.-— (ALP) —WNever before have Soviet collective farms worked so produc- tively as this year. In the Ukraine 14,000 combines were employed in the present haryest this year, as against 6500 last year. Soviet Union Send Food To Spanish Folk 2000 Tons Shipped from Odessa; More Following ODESSA, US:S:R., Sept. 23—( Cy Radio to ALP)—Wrhile thousands of workers from Odessa factories cheered from the doclss, the steamer Neva sailed from this port today with 2,000 tons of food for Spain. Her cargo is consigned to ‘tthe wom- en and children of the heroic Span- ish people.” The food was purchased with funds collected by Soviet women workers at hundreds of factory and mass meetines throughout the coun- try. Other ships leave Soviet ports laden with food for Spain as the col- lections continue, it was stated by speakers at the dock mass meeting. The Neva's cargo included 500 tons of butter, 300 tons of sugar, tons of confectionary and pro- Visions, 145 tons of tinned mills, « and other food. “Whe sending the first st with food bought on money cocoa, Amer llected by the women of the U.S:S-R. for the women and children the heroic Spanish people, we say to the Spanish women, ‘Ge staunch in the st with the savage insur- fent S32 4aet our ad in food strensthen your will for victory.” WVensko, a re- Stalchanovite sailor, 7. “We are sailing said, “and we plied for the crew on a far voyage,” he will justify the trust placed in us by the women of the U-S:S-R. We will deliver before schedule this cargo of food to the women and ehildren of Spain.” SPANISH EVENTS AFFECTS JAPAN TOKIO, Japan, Sept. 21—(ALP) —The solidarity of the People's Front in Spain is having its effect in Japan, where the police have pro- hibited Japanese workers’ organiza- tions from using the slogan: “‘Raise the fraternal Spirit te help the Spanish government.” The news- paper Asahi writes that Spanish events are “having a great influ- ence on Japanese workers’ organi-— zations.”’ REGINA ALTERS RELIEF CODE REGINA, Sask., Sept. 23—(AILP) —Relief recipients in the dry belt will be fSiven the right to choose the merchant with whom he wishes to deal, as a result of the relief agreements recently signed by the province. The council, however, will have the right to designate the area in which such choice shall be available. This, it is pointed out, will give to the local municipal authorities the right to determine whether a recipient must deal within his own community or be allowed to pur- chase throufh mail order houses. The recipient is required, further- more. to give the municipality a note for the repayment of all relief received. Provincial lesislation has made this compulsory. GIBRALTAR, Sept. 22 —(ALP)— It is reliably reported from Malaga that the steamer Fernando Po ar- rived at Malaga Sunday with 75,000 rifles, allegedly from Mexico. It is understood that the rifles may have been transferred fo the Fernando Po from the Magallones which sailed trom Vera Cruz, Mexico. about ten days ago. ne F amily of Seven, Forced to Bes; Jailed for ‘Obstructing’ With an eleven-months-old babe in her arms Mrs. Puyda was bundled off to a cell in the police station alone with her husband and their four other little tots of pre- School age, last Saturday, when they refused to heed a police order to ‘move on.” They were released on hail bonds of $200.00. Jack Beynon, who interceded on behalf of the family was also arrested on a charge of released on bond of $250.00 posted by the Canadian Labor Defence League, which is defending the cases. : The sight of the mother with her baby in her arms and the four other little children hangin= on to her apron strings, eaused many a mothers’ heart to wince as they. turned away to find a coin in their purse for the distressed family, at the same time giving voice to their feelings to the callous relief officials Who subject little children to the bangs of hunger in order that their rules and resulations might be Carried out to the letter. So great were the thrones that crowded around the family that Passing on the sidewalk in front of Woodward’s was well nigh im- possible, almost without exception the citizens expressed their sym- pathy, and condemnation was heaped high on the heads of those who were responsible for the fam- ily’s present plizht. A shack, almost bare of furniture, provides a home for the family, - loaned them by some kind friends. There are no blankets to cover the children on these chilly nights: a tin Stoves sives off heat when and (Continued on page 2) See UNEMPLOYED CORBIN MINERS ARE VICTIMS OF CLEVER GOVERNMENT RUSE LABOR PREPARES FOR ELECTIONS REGINA, Sask. Sept, 23-—(ALP) —Resina municipal elections are rolling around again and Resina labor is preparing to make a clean Sweep this year Ward Two city council séats at present held by non-labor aldermen, G. N. Menzies and T. G. MecNall. is to receive the full force of the Civic Labor League campaign in a deter mined effort to include Ward Two in its rostrum. Regina, for many years a strone- hold of reaction, was won for Jabor following the historic “On to Ot-— tawa"” trek which won the Support of all branches of labor organiza- tions here and evolved into the Civie Labor League securing the majority in city council. Exhibition Ass’n. Evades Wage Rate REGINA, Sask., Sept. 23.—(ALP) —Beeause of charges that the Ex- hibition Association at this year's exhibition paid wages less than the Minimum of 40 cents an hour pro- vided in the leasine agreement, Al- derman Toothill moved that the as- sociation be given notice of cancel- lation of lease. Several letters had reached coun- ell from parties complainine they had receiyed less than 40 cents an hour. The Exhibition Board, fur- thermore, had been asked by city couneil to furnish it with its pay- ros, but up to the present time the request has not been acceeded to, it was reported. Alderman Toothill declared that it seemed very much as thou delibe quest h the directorate board was ately trying to refuse the re- of council. Relief Only On Condition They Leave District Immediately Battered around by the mine owners and provincial government for two years, and finally starved out of their homes at Corbin by the provincial Severmment as a final gesture of governmental servil- ity to the Spokane owners of the Gorbin properties: such is the lot of the heroie Corbin miners. Hive families, eleven children and eleven adults in all, are today housed in rooms at the Stanley Hotel, awaiting the pleasure of the relief authorities. four families haye been shipped to Nanaimo. Another is on their way out to the coast. In such a way the Pattullo sovernment hopes they have re- moved the final barrier to mine- owner domination of the interior town. The Vancouver contingent arrived Saturday, September 19 and took up quarters in the Commercial Hotel. The relief authorities decided the Commercial Hotel was too good for the miners’ wives and families, and moved them to cheaper quarters. There they have been housed for a weelkx, whole families in single rooms, with no facilities other than the average room equipment, to Wash clothes, and care for the chil- dren. They have been told to find homes and the relief department will move them in. While your ‘re- porter was interviewing one of the fathers, the mother burst into the room tO announce jubilantly that they had found a home