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Vancouver, B.C., Friday. December 10, 1937

Labor Does Not Want
Forced Arbitration

RITISH COLUMBIA’S new Labor Bill has had its first

reading. It recognizes the right of organization and col-
lective bargaining, and concedes the right to both employers
and employees. This gratuitous handing to the bosses a
“visht” they have already developed to a high degree on the
eoast, clears away the ground for the “compulsory arbitra-
tien” features WHICH CONSTITUTE THE MAIN STRUC-
TURE, ESSENCE AND PURPOSE OF THE BILL.

In this Bill the right of organization and collective bar-
gaining is counter balanced with machinery calculated to
render trade union organization ineffective. Due to the pres-
sure of organized labor one of the most obnoxious clauses,
that of filing names of membership, has been deleted, but the
main objection Stil] stands. The Pattullo government has
already said te Labor through the medium of this Bill: IF
YOU WANT UNIONIZATION AND COLLECTIVE BAR-
GAINING, YOU MUST HAVE COMPULSORY ARBITRA-
ZION. The next demand, through the implementing of the
Bill will be: IF YOU WANT COLLECTIVE BARGAINING,
YOU MUST CLEAN OUT THE “RADICALS.”

Under the clauses dealing with conciliation the goyern-
ment-appointed commissioner may carefully inquire into all
disputes, make all such suggestions and do all such things
as he deems right and proper and kill as much time as pos-
sible, BECAUSE KILLING TIME IN REACHING A CON-
ELUSION IN AN INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE IS KILLING
THE INITIATIVE AND THE RIGHT TO STRIKE, AND
THIS IS THE MAIN PURPOSE OF THE BILL. If after the

end of fourteen days of “suggestions” the parties cannot
agree, the commissioner will report to the minister of labor
who shall authorize a board of arbitration. In the process
both sides are given seyen more days to appoint their repre-
sentatives. That is twenty-one days, plus the time provided
for the minister to make up his mind.

The proceedings of the board will be under oath, and all
union letters, files, books, papers or anything else that can be
gommandeered to prove a case—_IN FAVOR OF WHOM?
No time limit is set for the board to bring down its findings.
lis final decision shall be accepted or rejected by a referendum
yote of the membership of the union or employers’ organiza-
fions. After this the union may go on strike if it so desires,
although such desire is hardly likely after such a spell of
statutory procrastination.

Through the medium of this “eompulsory arbitration”
which is in itself a contradiction of collective arbitraticn, the
employers have been handed a powerful weapon by the Pat-
tullo government to emasculate and render the unions inef-
fective. It is the antithesis of free trade union association
and activity. It belongs to the Nuremburg decrees of the
Third Reich and brings trade unionism and ali that it stands
for dcwn to the level of Hitler’s “labor front.’ There also
“compulsory arbitration’ holds full sway, and as the Hxecu-
tive of the International Federation of Trade Unions has said
— the concentration camp is the alternative.

We may not have concentration camps in BC just yet,
$ut Pattullo’s “Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act”
shows that we will—unless labor acis concertedly, in unity,
and with decisiveness against the compulsory and espionage
elauses of this Bill, against the clauses that nullify the right
ef trade union organization.—T. E.

After the Civic Elections

WN THE hard light of Wednesday’s civic election results,

the devious arguments of the opponents of unity stand
exposed as dangereus fallacies. No placid rationalization by
CCF leaders can dispose of the fact that, whereas in the last
council the CCF had a nominal representation of three, only
Alderman Helena Gutteridge has retained her seat, while the
Citizens’ League-inspired Non-Partisan Association has ob-
4dained three seats. As a result, the new city council will be
predominantly a rubber stamp for Vancouver’s biz business
imterests.

True, Mrs. Susan Lane Clark, an advocate of unity, won
the third seat on the Parks Board, but against this must be
set the defeat of Miss Mildred Osterhout for school trustee.
he trade unions, in their initial attempt to gain civic repre-
sentation, were at the bottom of the poll. Their candidate,
Alex Fordyce, polled only around 4,000 votes, but had Fordyce
received the united support of the CCF of which he has long
been a member there is every reason to believe that he would
fhave been among the first four. In place of united support,
in place of welcoming the trade unions into active civic
progress, the CCF leaders fulminated against Fordyce.

Defeat of R. P. Pettipiece who climaxed his Sorry. record
an the labor movement by going openly over to the side of
reaction is pocr consolation for what could have been a de-
visive victory over the united forces of big business. A dis-
turbing sign is that, while Alderman Helena Gutteridge
polled 11.000 votes and Alfred Hurry 10,000, the other CCF
aldermanic candidates, William Offer and E. Robinson, polled
7,000 and 6,000 respectively. Up to 7,000 the CCF vote was
solid. Above this figure it was split several ways, but only a
minor portion of it went to the other progressive candidate,
Alex Fordyce, even allowing for those who did not use their
full vote.

We think that every CCF supporter, every. individual hon-
estly desiring progress, reviewing these results in the light of
civic elections elsewhere in Canada, will draw this conclusion:
Tn Regina, in Moose Jaw, where progressives—CCF, Com-
munist, Social Credit, the trade unions and progressive lib-
erals—made common cause for civic progress, they swept
the polls and administered a crushing defeat to reaction. In
Toronto, Winnipeg and Saskatoon progressives have also
made heartening gains. BUT IN VANCOUVER, WHERE
WE BOAST OF OUR PROGRESSIVE OUTLOOK, THE
GPEN REACTIONARY COALITION OF BIG BUSINESS
TAKES NINE OUT OF ELEVEN CIVIC POSITIONS BE-
€AUSE THE LARGEST PROGRESSIVE GROUP, THE CCF,

REFUSES ALL OVERTURES FOR UNITY.

The confidence of the CCF leadership may still be un-
shaken despite defeats, but the confidence of the progressive
woting public, which sees neither rhyme nor reason to labor
disunity in face of reactionary unity, can only be rallied for
wictory under a united front.

Victoria By-election Reflects

YHNIE by-election held last

week in Victoria to fill the
yacaney in the House ot Com-
jmions caused by the death of
Dr. Yolmie aroused unusual
interest not only in BC but
throughout Canada.
=— As com
pared with
the 1936 by-#

election in
that constitu-
eney, the re-
sult brings no
satisfaction ¢
tO ]) TO LTes>
sive people.
In the}
1936 election t
there were ’
17,592 balots eastl; last week
there were 23,771, au increase
of 6,179 or nearly 36 percent.
The IJiberal vote inereased
from 5,726 to 9,487, a gain of
3.761 or nearly G66 percent;
the Tory yote increased from
5,980 to 7,646, a gain of 1,661
or 29 percent; while the CCF
vote increased from 5,886 to

nsiaught of

6,643, a gain of only 757, ora
little more than 11 pereent.

It is dificult, therefore, to
what J. S. Woodswerth
finds “gratifying irom the
CCE standpoint” when out of
an jnerease of 6,179 ballots’
east, over those of 1936, the
CCE eandidate received only
757 as against 5,761 for the
Liberal and 1,661 for the Tory,
and the CCF dropped from
second place in 1936, when he
failed of election by only 94
yotes, to third place in 1957,
beine 2,S44 yotes behind the
suceesstul candidate.

The only comtort Woods-
worth or anyone else can get
out of such an outcome is im
the thought that “it might have
been worse.”

See

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YRNELE failure of the CCF in
Victoria following upon
the ousting of the CCF as the
official Opposition in the pro-
vinelal legislature and the rise
of the Tory party to second
place in the popular vote in

the provinee should give the
CCF leaders cause for serious
retlection.

Tt is becoming clear that in
the present situation the CCE
jn “soing it alone” can not de-
feat the old line parties nor
mieet the new situations ere
ated by reactionary coalitions.
And if the CCF failed in a
situation such as the Victoria
election presented, im which the
old line parties did not form a
coalition, how much less likely
will be success where and when’
such a coalition is ettected 2

Surely the hammer blows
of eyents will convince CCE
leaders who stand on a pedes-
tal of isolation and loftily m-
vite people to vote for their
candidates but reruse to be as-
sociated with them in a broad
federation for political action,
that the time for united action
of all progressive people has
arrived; if not long overdue.

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7HXNLE Communist party has
‘Ht Jone ealled for such unity

~and stands willing and ready

to work unselfishly, sincerely
and energetically in a united
progressive front.

The trade unions are moving
toward political action; and
around, buts not yet a part of
the trade union movement nor
of any working class political
party, there are tens of thou-
sands of unattached but pro-
eressivelyminded people who
would be imspired by the for-
mation of a united labor front
and swept into the orbit of pro-
eressive political action.

Tm this direction lies prog-
ress. Obanging times and sit-
uations require new forms and
unity of or@anization and new
methods of struggle. The
erowing unity of the forces otf
reaction and the reactionary
adyanee make imperative the
uniting of the forces of prog-

ress.

This ts the chief lesson to be
learned from the Victoria by-

Stage
and
Screen

OW the New Film Alliance
~ sizes the new pictures up:
NOTHING SACRED: An ex-

tremely amusing and well-per-
formed satire: Starring Carole
Lombard and Fredric March. Very
enjoyable. 5

PIRST LADY: A free adaptation
of George Kaufman’s successful
Broadway play, carrying over
many of the original laughs at
Washington society. Kay Francis
plays the lead.

BEG, BORROW OR STEAL: A
completely incredible sob story-
Wot worth a moment of your time.

BOY OF THE STREETS: Sort
of a Dead End without its punch,
but plenty of sugar-coating. Not
too good.

DANGER, LOVE AT WORK: A
not very musical musical.

By JOHN R. CHAPLIN

OLLYWOOD.—The radio has

now joined the Hollywood
trade press in vicious attack on
movie stars who have the temerity
to express political opinions, Lloyd
Pantages leads the radjo chatter-
ers who have denounced the Mo-
tion Picture Artists Committee and
its activities in behalf of Spanish
democracy and against interna-
tional Fascism. A yest coast news
broadeaster—the MRichfiield Re-
porter—joined the chorus with
this bit of Fascist propaganda:
“Don't forget, folks, that poli-
ticians, like motorists, usually lose
the right of way when they turn
left.”

But the radio people are dis-
covering that censorship is a snake
in the bosom, which should not be
nurtured. Well aware that social-
minded stars are too sincere to
take any gagging without putting
up a fight, the producers are vent—
ing their ire on radio chatterers.
A huge machinerw is being built
up to gag air chatterers who tell
the “lowdown” on the film indus-
try. We have no brief for the chat-
terers, who are scarcely an honor
to the journalistic profession, but
we do hope Lloyd Pantages and
his eronies realize they have only
themselves to blame when, intend-
ing to broadcast some juicy bit of
news, they are told by producers:
“You can’t say that.’ There can
be no freedom of expression for
air chatterers or trade papers, if
there is to be none for*the stars,
off whom they live like parasites.

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ARAMOUNT is going heavy for

the “epic of America’’ in its
current program. It has just fin-
ished Wells Fargo, the story of
transcontinental communications,
with Frances Dee and Joel Mc-
Grea; now it is casting Miss Dee
with Randy Scott in Thundering
Herds, the story of how Texas was
stolen from the Mexicans; and it
announces, for later, Western Un-
ion, story of the wire company,
to feature Frances and Joel Mc-
Grea. What with Selznick’s Free-
dom of the Press, 1938 should keep
us well posted on the glory of capi-
talism in the United States.

Leopold Stokowski was So ex-
cited at the idea of making a film
with Mickey Mouse that he didn’t
care what he got paid. On hear-
ing the news, Walt Disney is re-
ported to have rushed into his of-
fice and said to an assistant:
“Stewkowski is so crazy about the
idea, he’s offered to work for noth-
ing.” ..-. While Warners spent half
a million for the Nottingham
Castle set of Robin Hood, and 20th
Century-Fox put out close to three-
quarters of a million for the fire
scenes in Old Ghicago, Paramount
has shelved its air epic, Men With
Wings, for lack of cash, Most of
the studios are retrenching cur-
rently, Paramount leading with a
drive calculated to cut its budget
by five million bucks. No broad.
wage cuts have set in as yet, but
all studios are cutting down on the
number of extras being used... .

OPEN FORUM

Spain And
Catholicism

Editor, People’s Advocate:

Dear sir: I believe that in Spain,
as in Ireland, the Catholic church
taught its members to hold stead-
fastly to the idea that no lie can be
lawful or innocent, and no motive
however good can excuse a lie, be-
cause a lie is always sinfuland bad
in itself.

A. i. Smith, who was chairman
of the meeting held for Wally
Dent at Cranbrook recently, de-
elared, “Among the staunchest
fighters supporting Loyalist Spain
are her own Catholic people, that
truth and justice shall prevail.”

This truth taught to Catholics
will return like a boomerang upon
those who would distort it to gain
such despicable ends.

Catholie Worker.
Cranbrook, BC.

A Canuck
In Spain
Editor, People’s Advocate.

Dear Comrade: Since I wrote
last time I have been taken out
of the lines to work in the rear,
but ’m hoping to get back again
soon. I’ve applied te be sent
back to the battalion and expect
to hear any time now.

The last big offensive took a lot
out of me, so the doctor sent me
out for a spell. I guess my age
had a little to do with it, for £
stood up okay for many days
under fire, attacking by day and
marching by night, and didn’t
feel so bad. It was after we came
out for a rest that I weakened,

You know that most of our lads
have been in action and I can say
that their courage and morale is

excellent. The Canadians have
made a splendid name for them-
selves along with the other troops
of the Spanish Army. Every bat-
tle is teaching us more about
military strategies. The last ad-
vance I was in the boys went
over like veterans in the face of
heavy machinegun and artillery
fire, cool as in training, although
some crossed the border where
no passports are recognized.

I can say one thing. The gov-
ernment is going to win this war
despite everything, particularly
now that conditions are vastly
improved in the rear.

BH. J MITCHELL.

Albacete, Spain.

Editor, People’s Advocate:

Dear Sir—I thought Garfield
King scored a neat point the other
day in the Juvenile Court where
he represented Agnes Martin, 16-
year-old girl.

Judge Helen MacGill, a former
suffragette, told Agnes she would
be the ward of the court until she
was 21 years of age, warning her
of serious consequences for sim-
ilar acts.

Mr. Kine thought such a ruling
entirely unnecessary and recalled
activities of suffragettes 25 years
ago—many of whom are now
prominent in many spheres of pub-
lic life.

I am sure Miss Martin is proud
to picket against Japanese goods.
Soon, many other Canadian girls
will take on the mantle of the mili-
tant suifragette movement, to help
change the world. Congratula-
tions, Agnes. Don’t let the ruling
of Judge Helen MacGill get you
down. P.W.
Vancouver, BC.

Books and Authors

QOKS on labor topics are

among the best sellers in the
new publishing venture launched
by Modern Age Books in New York
to bring paper-bound volumes of
merit at 25c, 35¢, 50e and 75c to
the great body of people who can’t
afford to invest heavily at $2 or $3
a throw.

Leading the field are The Labor
Spy Racket by Leo Huberman and
Men Who Lead Labor by Bruce
Minton and John Stuart. That the
public wants books if they are
priced for the average purse 15
shown by the fact that printings
of these and other items quickly
approached 100,000 copies, whereas
cloth-bound books seldom go be-
yond a few thousand per title.

Among other volumes on the
Modern- Age list of special in-
terest to labor are The United
States, a Graphi¢e History, by Louis
M. Hacker, Rudolf Modley and
George R. Taylor; LaGuardia, a
biography by Jay Franklin; Krom
Spanish Trenches, letters eompiled
by Marcel Acier; Old Hell, a story
of the Tennessee mountains by
Emmett Gowan; and Kaltenborn
Edits the News, by H. V. Kalten-
born.

Modern Age Books, with head-
quarters at 155 East 44th street,
New Work City, has established
distributing points in 199 cities.

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HE Left Book Club in England

which now has a membership
of more than 46,000 has established
a foreign despatch department
through which readers in other
countries can Obtain books issued
by the club in its famous half-a-
erown limp cloth cover editions.

All books issued by the club have
one price—roughly 60 cents in Ca-
nadian currency—although ordi-
nary editions for sale to the gen-
eral public may cost anywhere
from one to five dollars.

Because books priced in England
at 60 cents might sell for varying
prices in other countries according
to rates of exchange and duty
charged, it was difficult te work
out a scheme whereby foreign
readers could be placed on an
equal footing with readers in
Britain.

The Left Book Club announces
that it has now overcome this dif-
ficulty, makes the following offer:

‘Wfembers will receive their

books direct from the Left Bool
Club Foreign Despatch depart-
ment. This department will mail
the book to the member, charging
60 cents, plus cost of postage, 6
cents and duty, 5 cents (paid in
Canada on receipt of book). En-
rolment form must be accompa-
nied by a remittance of £i, or the
rough equivalent in Canadian cur-
reney. Books will then be sent
regularly month by month until
the amount is exhausted, when a
new remittance will be asked for.
It is impossible to say how many
books the £1 will cover, but it
should normally cover six or seven
monthly books.

“There is, however, one import-
ant point in connection with Cana-
dian members only. No publishers
possess the Canadian rights of all
the books they publish, and the
Left Book Club is no exception.
As it would be a breach of contract
for the Left Book Club to supply
in Canada a book of which they
have not the Ganadian rights, it
may be necessary for the publish-
ers to withhold certain of the
choices or other books issues in
connection with the scheme. An
examination in the rights of the
books already issued shows that
had the Canadian membership
scheme been in operation, members
would have been able to receive
nine of the twelve first choices.
This proportion cannot be taken,
of course, aS a guarantee and is
merely given as an indication. In
any case, where a club book is not
available for a Canadian member,
this member will be sent a post-
ecard to this effect.

“eft Book Club sole agents for
Canada are Ryerson Press, corner
Queen and John streets, Toronto,
who will supply any further in-
formation required. Enrolment
forms and all correspondence in
connection with despatch of the
books should be sent to Victor
Gollanez Ltd, 14 Henrietta street,
Covent Garden, London, W.C. 2,
England.”

Aim of the Left Book Club is
“to help in the terribly urgent
struggle for world peace and a bet-
ter social and economic order and
against fascism by giving (to all
who are determined to play their
part in this struggle) such know—
ledge as will immensely increase
their efficiency.”

election.
A uf

Woman’s
Diary

By VICTORIA POST

JN SPITE of the city having

been under siege for nearly a
year, there are still 50,000 babies
in Madrid who are better nour-
ished than they were in the old
days. The government has estab-
lished stations where mothers
may obtain milk and eggs for
their children. If she has money,
she buys them at cost. if she
has no money, they are given to
her.

Even under shell fire education
still goes on. New schools are
opened wherever possible, and
bomb-shattered school buildings
restored, to cope with the de-
mand of the people for education.
On the other hand, a decree is-
sued by the fascist forces stated
that the war was costing so much
money that expenses must be re-
duced by closing certain national
and elementary schools, thirty-
one in all.

There is a child colony in every
town and village in Catalonia,
where over 25,000 refugee children
are being cared for and educated.
Refugees are still pouring in and
are welcomed whole-heartedly by
the Catalonian government. Most
of these people are not able to
work; they are old, infirm or chil-
dren. Food for the normal popu-
lation is rationed now, and Spain
is facing a hard winter.

Whether these refugees will be
supplied with sufficient food and
clothing throughout the winter
depends on donations to the For-
eign Committees to Aid Spain to
enable them to co-operate with
the Spanish goyernment in its
struggle to obtain the necessary
supplies.

®

E YOU write to your favorite
movie star for an autographed
photo between now and Christ
mas, you will also receive some
beautifully mounted red and
green stamps, bearing the in-
scription “Give to the Spanish
Children.” If your heart is moved
by this plea, your remittance will
help to buy Christmas gifts for
Spanish children, help them to
forget the ever-present horrors

of war.

This is all part of an interna-
tional drive to send shiploads of
toys, medical supplies and cloth-
ing to the victims of the Spanish
war, sponsored by such famous
film stars as Richard Arlen, Syl-
via Sidney, Paul Muni, Franchor

Tone, Florence Hldridge and
scores of others.
t=)

VERY year, large fortunes

are spent on laxatives and
eathartics. Dr. Harold Aaron, in
a report to the Consumers Union
of the United States, says that
this money might just as well be
burnt in the kitchen stove, be-
cause none of the medicines does
permanent good and many do ser-
ious harm.

Contrary to common belief, Dr.
Aaron stated, a laxative does not
assist in checking a cold. Nor
has constipation itself caused any
serious aiiment.

Such medicines as Ex-Lax,
Feen-a-Mint, Cascarets and Sat
Hepatica should be particularly
avoided as they contain ingred-
jents irritating to the intestines
and which sometimes cause skin
eruptions and even ulcers of the
mouth.

The safest laxative to use iS
milk of magnesia. This is the
only one which should be given
to children. Sodium phosphate
and cascara sagradé are alterna-
tives suitable for adults, also the
old-fashioned enema, though re-
peated enemas should also be
avoided.

The best plan, according to Dr.
Aaron, is to use a laxative as a
crutch, to be used as a temporary
sid until the cause of the weak-
ness can be found and corrected.

ose
By
OL’ BILL
x In a local rag that
Canadian exploits the religi-
Names. . ous sentiment of

. Catholic people and
points the way for them to Fas-
cism, a venomous attack is
‘Taunched on the heroic members
of the MacKenzie-Papineau Bat-
talion who have died in the

~ struggle te save Spain from the

horrors of Fascism, because they
do not have “Canadian” names.
Who is a Canadian? What is
a “Canadian” name? Must we
all be Tecumsehs, or Pontiacs
or Poundmakers or Maquinnas?
Perhaps the Rev. Mr. O’Boyle,
editor of the paper in question,
thinks every Canadian should
have a name like the bandit,
Red Ryan, or the grafting poli-
tician, Flavelle, who gouged five
million dollars out of the Cana-
dian people by selling rotten
hams to the Canadian army in
Flanders, or like the Fascist
radiorator, Tom McInnes, whose
interest in the murder of inno-
cent women and children in ~
China and the destruction of
their homes is ‘expressed in his
call to Vancouver to go into a

- huddle and get the business of

supplying the lumber and other
materials that will be needed to
rebuild the cities razed by the
Japanese imperialists, or of num-
berless Canadian criminals
whose names do not bear the
taint of Germanic, Slavic, Scan-
dinayvian, Finnish, Hungarian or
Jewish origin.

Speaking for myself, a Cana-
dian with a Scots background, f
am satished that the Croatian
immigrant, Tom Cacic,
Seandinavian immigrant, Tom
Welson, both of whom died toe
prevent the jackboot of Fascism
being planted on the neck of the
Spanish people, were better Ca-
nadians than the Scots immi-
grants, Lord Strathcona and Sir
John A. MacDonald, or the Irish
immigrants, Sir Herbert Holt
and Senator Pat Burns.

Ganada is a new nation just
coming out of the melting-pot.
O’'Boyle and McInnes are no
more Ganadian names, and no
less, than Szysz and WNivirinski,
though the owners of these two
latter names were better Cana-
dians and better men than
O’Boyle and McInnes, 2

* :
The best answer

Answered to these traduc-

From Spain. ers of the real
Canadians might
be to insert here a few extracts

from a letter I have just receivea
from one of the boys who are
. bringing glory to the name “Ca-
nadian,” Jack Lawson, well
known leader of our Canadian
youth in their fight against the
slave compounds that the
O’Boyles and MecInneses imposed

on them, se eH
Says Jack: “The Mac-Paps are
getting along “fine here and

though I am not attached to
them, being in another unit of
the service, I see them continu-
ally in the line and out. Of
course, Vancouver is well rep
resented, so that the paper from
the old home town is naturally
sought after to a degree that
would make the circulation man-
ager glow with satisfaction.

“What gives the greatest pleas-
ure to everyone in this part of
the world is the fact that our
paper carries out the struggle on
behalf of the Spanish- people in
a manner that leayes no rooni
for doubt as regards the position
it takes in regard to Fascism.

“In regards to the CCF, my
imagination is sometimes stag-
gered at the attitude they take
towards unity. I sometimes won-
der if they would be so critical
if they were up aaginst the men-
ace of Fascism in the sense that
Spain is today.

We have lots of rank and file
CCkers fighting the fascist in=
vader here and they are disgusted
with the actions of some of their
so-called leaders back in Canada,
but are still confident that despite
manoeuvering and hair-splitting on
the part of elements hostile to
unity, the day will dawn when the
workers of Canada will stand
united against reaction.

As regards the situation here,
we have a splendid new army, and
are now on the offensive and giy—
ing France all he can handle, re-
gardless of his accomplices, Hitler
and Mussolini, and the material
aid they give him. The rear is
strong and the “fifth colunmites”
and their allies the Trotskyites
are being eliminated daily. The
workers are alert and are becom-
ing more conscious of the tasks
that lie ahead and how to carry
them out. Salud.

Jack Lawson.
*

“45 When we read that
British = leaders in the na-
Generosity. tional government
of Britain were talking of giving
Wazi Germany some colonies we
felt something like the Scottie wha
won a pony and trape in a ten-cent
raffle and, when he found that
there was no whip with it, ex
claimed, “I knew there was a catch
in it.”

Wow we learn that the colony
they intend to give the Nazis was
to be made up of part’of the Bel-
gium Congo and Portuguese An-
gola. Of course, they will try to
explain that the plan originated
with the Nazis, but we are not to
be cheated, since we know from
experience that British imperial-
ists will give away only what be-
longs to someone else.

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