{ pea aemin ten ld a Fascist Control Agents Ac Western _ Ihe People’s Canada’s Leading POG essive Newspaper VANCOUVER, B.C., JUNE 25, 1937 JOBLESS _ Attitude on Civic Committee Hit Workers Alliance Seeking City Works Scheme for Unemployed Deplores Attitude of CCF Council Member Failure of CCE Ald. R. P. Pettipiece to give support to contentions of an unemployed delegation before the social service committee, of which Sane, strong city council could suffering is strongly gation. Second,T hird International Meet Planned Buck Hopes For Similar, CCF, CP Meet In Canada TORONTO, Ont., June 24.— Dim Buck general secretary of the Communist Party of Canada, ex- bressed sreat Satisfaction at “Ald. Pettipiece Save further proof that he also is completely dominated by bondholders who demand first call on city revenues, his answer to feasible proposals beinge that ‘there is no money available for such schemes',”” one member of the dele- gation remarked. -Reading from a statement pre- pared by a joint committee of the three city locals of the Workers’ Alliance, Spokesman W. Crawford Save the committee a comprehensive review of the situation of unem- ployed here urging correction of present abuses and establishment of 4 sub-committee to deal with emer- sency cases in a systematic man- ner. Wustrating by his own cireum- stances the manner in which many families are forced to live, Crawford declared: “I know what I’m talking about, for I’m living in a place where bed- bues like baby turtles scuttle away from the light and my children look like cases of hives from bites.” The committe was told that soap, brooms, disinfectants and other sani- tary necessities could no longer be bought from the relief allowances, as every cent was used for the cheapest and most inferior foods obtainable Cruel treatment to sick relief re- cipients was Charged, the brief de- claring: that men were forced tc work in ditches and sewers without Proper clothins. Urges Works Scheme Rees Jones, in Proposing= a works scheme to relieve unemployment, outlined the need for a new hospital wing, clearing of city lots, elimina- tion of the rat peril around False Creek, renewal of street markings and sign posts. Jones demanded also that the un- employed be put to work covering the present network of open ditches in the city that Carry feyver-spread- ing sewage comparable to the city of London before the great plague. Additional yalues would be given to Properties if this was boldly handlea by the city fathers, he said. W.. Woodhead closed the report with facts and figures showing the reasonableness of the present de- mand for 54 per cent increase in re- lief. Present widespread malnutrition among children left them open to the inroads of disease, endangering: the whole community, he said. Interviewed by the PA after the Session, Crawford stated that the Progressive members on the city council are not making the stand expected of them and that given a bold lead from within that body the jobless and their supporters would get behind any constructive Pro- bposals that would alleviate present miserable conditions. “We are not out to embarrass them on the city council, but our very hunger and nakedness demands that CCF council members put up a genuine fight for us on the floor.” TORONTO, Ont., June 24.—Orders to all German nationals born in 1917, living in Canada, to register With the nearest German consul for active military service in Germany, have been announced by CG. G. ixropp, German consul here. 28 APOLLO CAFE OYSTER AND CHOP HOUSE $4.50 Meal Ticket West Cordova St. THEO. ANGELL WHEN JAPAN GOES TO WAR Regular $1.75 i for $4.00 Prop. June 4th fo June 26th | MELITARISM AND FASCISM IN JAPAN es ACE MIAT SIS) oo Ree oes ss (eee Sale — 75c | THE ROOSEVELT ILLUSION, by EB. 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Wothing was left to chance, nor had the intrepid pilots to seek financial backing from syndicates and plan their preparations accordingly The best that Soviet science could offer was theirs. Hive years ago this plan for a Moscow-San Francisco long dis- tance flight over the Pole was tak- ing shape in the minds of Soviet scientists who confidently believed in the practicability of a regular route being established. And this week the plan took definite shape when the huge grey monoplane flown by Alex- ander Beliakoy. navigator and head of the expedition, Chkaloy, and George Baidukoy, landed at Vancouver, Washington, after being in the air 68 hours and 17 minutes. They feil only 592 miles short of their goal, landing at the Washington town when adverse weather conditions ren- dered continuance of the flight inadvisable. In 1935 Vodopyanoff, ‘Hero of the Soviet Union,” at the request of his’ chief, Prof. O. J. Schmidt, who led the Polar expedition, wrote a novel presenting the technical as- pects of the flight. This book, “The Pilot’s Dream,” has enjoyed a wide sale and was recently presented as a drama at the Moscow Realist theatre. Then, in February, 1937, promi- nent aviators were summoned to the Kremlin to give authorities the assurance that the project was en- tirely feasible. “The Pilot’s Dream” was becoming reality. World Hails Feat. The whole of the democratic world hailed the Soviet flight. Newspapers along the Coast flashed the news in the headlines and radio stations broke into resular pro- grams to announce the plane’s prog- ress. Even the Vancouver News- Herald fell over itself to comment: “Everyone but the Fascists will ac- claim this great achievement.” From Boston, Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, only man to fly over both North and South Poles, declared: “The flight is unsurpassed in the history of avi- —y By MICHAEL O’MARA long-distance flight over ement, accomplished with 4 minimum of chance be- S which preceded them. ive Years Of Careful Preparations Preceded Great Soviet Flight Progressives everywhere this week were pointing to the Soviet aerial] conquest of the North Pole and the Moscow-Vancouver, Wash., as great examples of Socialist achiev cause of the long, carefy] preparations of year the top of the world ation.’ And from Moscow Josef Stalin ¢ cabled: “Congratulate you warm- ly on your brilliant victory. Your Successful achievement of the heroic non-stop flight from Mios- cow over the North Pole to the United States excites the admir- ation and love of the toilers’of the whole Soviet Union.’ Vancouver, however, had no reas- on to be proud of its Sea Island air_ port, fondly acclaimed as “the fin- est in Ganadg’ Capacity as mayor, G &. MeGeer took time off from entertainins his “friends” over the air and on the publie platform to entertain them still more by floodlighting the new eity hall with the airport’s light. Apparently, it occurred to nobody that it would be more useful in its “proper place, with the econse- quence that the Sea Island airport Wes without its light when the Soviet plane winged its way south. Too Horrible For Public Suppressed ST. LOUIS, June 24.—_(F'P) cago’s described in detail in a copyr Post-Dispatch, as it was viewed ins, i ‘In secret showings before agents of the LoWollette civil liberties committee at Washington, ~ “Those who saw it were shocked and amazed by scenes showing scores of uniformed policemen firing their revolvers pointblanix into a dense crowd of men, women and children, and then pursuing and clubbing the survivors unmercifully as they made frantic efforts to es- cape,” the paper relates. At each showing additional instances of frightfulness were detected. A typieal sequence in the mass- acre of pickets at Republic Steel's South Chicago plant is described as follows: “Suddenly without apparent warn- ing, there is a terrific roar of pistol shots, and men in the front ranks of the marchers go down like grass before a scythe. The camera eatches approximately a dozen falling simul- taneously in a heap. The massive, sustained roar of the police pistols lasts perhaps two or three Seconds, “Instantly, the police charge on the marchers with riot sticks flail- ing. At the same time. teargsas gren- ades are seen sailing into the mass of demonstrators, and clouds of as rise over them. Chicago Massacre Films By Paramount -—The newsreel record of Chi- Memorial Day massacre of Republic Steel strikers, suppressed by Paramount as likely to provoke riots through- out the country and as too horrible to show to the public, is ighted story in the St. Louis several instances, from two to four policemen are seen beating one man. One strikes him horizontal- ly across the face, using his club as he would wield a baseball bat. Amother erashes it down on top of his head, and still another is whip- Ping across the back. “These men try to protect their heads with their arms, but it is only a Matter of a second or two until they go down. In one such scene, directly in the foreground, a police- man gives the fallen man a final smash on the head before moying on to the next job. “A girl, not more than five feet tall, who can hardly weigh more than 100 lbs., is seen foine down under a quick blow from a police- man’s club, delivered from behind. She gets up, and Staggers around. A few moments later, she is shown being shoved into a patrol wagon, blood cascading down her face and Spreading over her elothinge.”’ NEW YORK — (FP) — Leadine pSychologists representing: 22 US universities have formed a Psycholo- sists Committee of the Medical Bureau to Aid Spanish Democracy to procure medical supplies for the Spanish people. This advertisement is not published or disprayed by the Liquor British Columbia. Control Board or by the Government of Last year,-in his —————— Give Information On Fortifications belligerents, is the Opinion of Fascists Are Chagrined As Scheme Fails Japan, Germany Reveal Links With Traitors NEW YORK, June 24In Shang- hai last week was held a closed meeting of Russian White Guards, attended also by delegates of Nazi and Italian fascist organization. Passed was a resolution advocatine the overthrow of the Soviet govern- ment, favoring Carrying out of the counter-revolution “through coop- eration with outside forces,” ac- cording to the United Press. The White Guards and Hitler’s and Mussolini’s agents recorded in this resolution their disconcertion Over the execution of the Tukha- chevsky spy Sang, ace-in-the-hole of Hitler's espionage service. in Japan, the news agency Do- mei Tsusin revealed, quoting Gol- onel Hata, head of the Press de- partment of the Japanese War Min- istry, the chagrin of the military— fascist clique over the loss of the eight traitors. Wazis Woo France In Germany, WNazi newspapers tried to make up for their loss of eight highly-placeq Spies by appeal- ‘ing to France to break the Eranco- Soviet pact. Hitler realizes that the loss of his time-bomb in the general headquarters of the Red Army is a Military defeat that will dampen for some time his hopes of success- fully attacking the Soviet Union, The anti-Soviet press all over the world tried to hide its chagrin at the exposure and punishment of the Hitler agents, Taking their cue from the Nazi newspapers, they spread malicious rumors of ‘““weak- ness” of the Soviet Union, of 4 “crisis” in Soviet power. Answered the Communist news- Paper Pravda: “The smashing of the last espion- age corps of one of the foreign states isa stunning blow to the in- cendiaries of war and their plans to undermine the power of the Red Army and to enslave the people of the Soviet Union. “This smashing is proof not of a ‘crisis’ in the Soviet power but a erisis in the espionage of the Capi- talist countries.” Pew seriously questioned that the eight were ‘guilty. They had con- fessed to being “in the military ser- vice of a foreign government which is conducting an unfriendly policy against the USSR, systematically Siving espionage information, per- mitting wrecking acts for the pur- pose of undermining the power of the Red Army, and preparing, in case of military attacks on the USSR, a defeat for the Red Army.” They had as theic aim the “split- ting of the USSR, and the return to power of the landlords and capi- talists.” They were found Suilty and sen- tenced: to death by a Special session of the Soviet Union Supreme Gourt’s military collegium. They ‘were charged with violation of their military oath, treason to the Soviet Union, and betrayal of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army. LA INDUSTRIAL COUNCIL LOS ANGELES. —(FP)—The joc] conference of the Committee for In- dustrial Organization became the of- ficial CIO industrial council on in- stallation of a charter. It claims rep- resentation of over 40,000 Los An- geles workers. German Cruisers Signal All Movements of the Republican Fleet, Merchant Vessels to ; Rebel Planes, Warships BRUSSELS, Belgium, June 24.—That supervision officers appointed under the control scheme act as spies, pirates and Max Buset, Belgian Socialist deputy, who has just returned from Republicant Spain where he delivered an ambulance bought by Belgium anti-Fascists >to Loyalist troops. The control scheme actually works to the ad- vantage of the Wascists while pre- venting the Loyalists from receiy- ing supplies, he declares. Deputy Buset visited the three chief Republican ports of Cathagena, Valencia and Barcelona, where he found control Strict, so strict, in fact, that German and Italian war- ships assigned to patrol duties off the coasts of Republican Spain sare not confinins their activities only to control. Instead of remaining ten miles off shore as Stipulated under the terms of the non-intervention agree- ment, Bascist ships anchor within the three-mile limit, even coming as close in as the roadsteads. An Italian war vessel allegedly employed on control duty laid mines near Cape Bagur recently. Officers of a Fascist submarine were ob- served taking Photographs of the docks and port buildings. In Valencia, where German and Italian control officers had been Siven landing permits, those officers used the permits to visit all docks and port buildings and to make strategic points and barracks. A German control officer, Johannes Wommerzahl (holder of card No. 638 of the London Comit- tee) had to be arrested when he made inciting speeches in 4 public bar-room. Act As Intelligence in Carthagena, the movements of all Republican warships are closely watchedg a German cruiser is Stationed three miles off the port from where its aircraft is sent to photograph the coast, the port and the interior. Whenever the Republican fleet leaves port it is followed either by> the German cruiser or its airplanes and every movement is Signalled to the rebel fleet. German airplanes from the German war ships cover and report the movement of all mer- chant vessels plying between Cartha- Sena and Almeria; a few hours later a rebel plane or rebel Warships ap- pears to stop these ships. The Spanish ships ‘Sister’ and “Auguste” were thus reported to the rebels and bombed. The Danish steamer “Harrick’’ was spied on by an Italian plane; a rebel ship cap- tured this yessel and brought it to Ceuta where its cargo of potatoes Was confiscated. Phalangists Sentenced To Die. HENDAYE, rench-Spanish Fron- er, June 24.—)fanuel Hedilla. head of the Fascist Phalangists, who were practically the only Spaniards to join the insurgent forces, was condemned to death by a Salamanca. War Council with 14 of his chief lieutenants. 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