December 17, 1937

THE PEOPLE’S

ADVOCATE

Page Three

August

1937 IN REVIEW

October

embarls on any new policy which
would 1e€nder imminent granting
of bellizserent rights to General
ivranco.”

Tientsin, China —Systematic bomb-
ing by Japanese planes turns this
city into a shambles,

Wanking, China.— ‘China is deter-
mined to fight to the last man,”
General Chiang Kai-shek de-
clares. “The policy of our govern-
ment is... that we cannot sur-
render any territory or allow our
sovereignty to be encroached
upon. I call upon the nation to
mobilize our total resources and
struggle hand-in-hand to save
China.”

August 7 - 13
Vancouver, BC. — Following the
Stand taken by Workers’ Alli-
ance, CCH regional committee in-
structs City Council representa-
tives to press for “an immediate
amelioration and aim at an up-
ward revision of work remunera-
tion.”
Seven-day strike of 125 employees
ends in victory as agreements
reached with Sigurdson’s and Ar-
butus sash and door factories.

Wanaimo, BC. — Conciliation board

- appointed te arbitrate demands of
United Mine Workers from Can-
adian Coilieries.

Toronto, Ont. — Daily Clarion re-

veals that from 1915-36 Canada
paid in direct war expenditures,
$1,698.517,658, of which $600,000,-
000 was cost of repairing Halifax
after 1917-18 explosion. Pensions
in the same period cost $694,706,-
oo4; reestablishment of soldiers
in civil life, $235,019,732; adminis-
tration of soldiers’ settlement,
$24,448,528; war graves, $4,811,287.
in addition to this huge expendi-
ture, interest now totals $1,953)-
464.614, swelling national debt to
$4,002,550,255 or $363 per head of
each of Canada’s 11,000,000 people.
Canadians are still paying for the
Great war at the rate of $158,000,-
000 annually.

{| Montreal, Que. — Negotiations open

between striking Catholic Syndi-
eate textile workers and em-
ployees.

New York. — Sydney Elliott, editor

of Reynold’s News, London, Eng-
jand, here on tour of US, says one
in seven of London’s inhapitants
is @ cooperative member, that
British co-ops do $1,500,000, or
14-15 percent, of total retail trade,
that co-op membership is growing
at rate of one a minute, now to-
tals 7,800,000.

» Denver, Colo-—Membership of Mine,

Mall and Smelter Workers Union
has grown from 17,000 at begin-
ning of 1937 to 45,000, 34th inter-
national convention reports.

Valencia, Spain. — Government re-

ports fighting between fascist fac-
tions in various cities. Troops re-
volt in fascist-held cities of Gra-
nada, Segovia, Toledo, Seville.

_® Barcelona, Spain. — Long-heralded

f
lee
» Porento, Ont. — Labor Representa-

ae

loyalist offensive on Aragon front
epens as new unified Catalan
army under General Sebastian Po-
Zas makes important gains.

), Shanghai, China. — Japanese war-

ships mass in Yangtze River for
attack on this city.

August 14 - 20

Vancouver, BC. — Wifty-three un-

| employed veterans sentenced to six

Weeks imprisonment, 36 single
jobless men to two months, for
soliciting public aid on streets.
Mass protest meeting demand an-
nulment of sentences, institution
of public works plan.

Hight members of Youth Commit-
tee to Aid Spain defy Mayor G. C.
Miller’s ban, picket Italian con-
sulate to protest Italian invasion
of Spain. Four are arrested, and
charged with obstructing police.

q Fairbanks, Alaska. — Search pro-

ceeds for trans-polar plane of
Sigismund Leyanevsky, lost in
Arctic.

Z Ottawa, Ont. — Mackenzie King

government disallows Alberta
€evernment’s bank control legis-
lation.

tion Association instructs execu-
tive committee to draft provincial
platform.

Shanghai, China—Chinese defend-

ers drive Japanese invaders back
to waterfront. In the north Chi-
mese troops stubbornly contend
Japanese penetration through
WNankow pass. Chinese Red Army
marches to attack Japanese rear.

| London, Eng. — Wazi journalists

ordered to leave England by
Home Office for conducting espio-
nage work.

Mosul, Irak. — General Bakri Sidki
Pasha assassinated.

August 21 - 27
Vancouver, BC. — Fine of $5 im-
posed on one of four pickets ar-

rested for picketing Italian con-
Sulate, charges against three
others dismissed. We've estab-
lished the principle now,” says
Chief of Police Colonel Foster.

Wanaimo, BC.— Closed shop won
by United Mine Workers of Am-
erica, miners hail union victory
after twenty-five years’ struggle
for organization.

Lisbon, Portugal.—Portugal breaks
off diplomatic relations with
€zecho-Slovakia following can-
cellation of Portuguese munitions
order by Czecho-Slovak Arms
Manufacturing company at Brno.

Shanghai, China. — Japanese planes
loose storm of death on GChinese
cities as stern defense of Shang-
hai continues to drain Japan’s
resources. Japanese warships in-
Stitute S800-msHe blockade of
China's ports.

Santander, Spain. — Heroic Asturi-
an miners fight losing battle in
mountains against superior mech-
anized force of Italians and Moors
closing in on Santander. Writes
One correspondent: “It was a bat-
tle of ghosts — mud and blood-
SMeared ghosts struggling hand-
to-hand in a dripping for .. . hand
Srenades bursting - men
Screaming ... bayonets used as
daggers. The struggle lasted for
an hour. Then the Asturians fell
back into the fog.”

August 28 - September $3

Vancouver, BC. — Scott’s Cafe signs
with Local 28, Hotel and Restaur-
ant Employees Union.

Friends of the Mackenzie-Papi-
neau Battalion notified of death
On Madrid front of Ivan Beranic,
Princeton miner.

Chinese in British Columbia do-
nate $100,000 to National Salva-
tion movement.

Wew Westminster, BC. — Chinese
freighter Haida, in port here, load-
ing 5,000 tons of sulphur, under
Special guard, will attempt to
run Japanese blockade.

Alebt Bay, BC. — Fishermen here
protest confiscation of licenses
by fisheries patrol. ae

Victoria, BC. — Employees of Sid-
ney Rubber Roofing company or-
ganized in Pulp, Sulphite and
Paper Mill Workers Union.
Trades and Labor Council issues
calis for a trade union confer-
ence to draft provincial bill of
trade union rights. .

| Seattle, Wash. — Washington Com-

monwealth Federation demands
immediate invocation of 9-power
treaty against Japan, calis for
boycott of Japanese goods.

Washington, DG. — “Cursory in-
vestigation” of Wazi organiza
tions in United States ordered by
Attorney-General Homer S. GCum-
mings. Edgar J. Hoover, director,
Federal Bureau of Investigation,
will conduct the probe.

Shanghai, China—Sir Hughe Mont-
gomery Knatchbull - Hughesson,
British ambassador to China, is
wounded when his auto travelling
from Nanking to Shanghai fired
upon by Japanese plane. British
national government says its at-
titude is “one of unbounded exas-
peration.”

Tokyo, Japan.—Since the beginning
of her undeclared war on China,
Japan has exported $65,000,000 in
gold, now has reserve of only
$350,000,000-

Barcelona, Spain. — Canadian, Am-
erican and British volunteers take
Part in historic Aragon offensive.
Loyalist columns advancing on
Zaragosa capture Quinto, Bel-
chite, strategic town 22 miles
southeast of Zaragosa, in house-
to-house fighting.

September 4 - 10

Vancouver, BC. — Trades and Labor
Couneil endorses Mackenie-Papi-
neau Battalion. Zz
Howard Costigan, executive sec-
retary, WCF, in interview here
declares: ‘“‘America is the key to
the Oriental problem. The way
the United States goes the world’s
great democracies go. The future
of world peace depends on Ameri-
Can action. Unless she does act
there will be a war which can
only end in world war. American
action now will not only prevent
world now, but will save US and
Canadian trade with the Orient.
if the US puts a boycott on Japa-
nese silk and an embargo on the
shipment of cotton to Japan, then
within two months Japan will not
be able to fire a bullet.”

Blubber Bay, BG. — Pacific Lime

company’s 150 striking employees

23

Barcelona: D

eath strikes down nencombatants from the air

soos

fiNew York. —

Win recognition of union shop

committee, higher wages.
Vernon, BC. — Grew of 20 strike at

Belgian Orchard.
“Just give me 48
hours, the power of subpoena, and
I will definitely establish that
Henry Ford, Kresge and others
are the financial resources of
American fascist and Nazi sects,”
Says Representative Dickstein.

Washington, DG. — John L. Lewis,
in a radio address, says: “Out of
the agony and travail of economic
America the CIO was born. To
millions of Americans, exploited
without stint by corporate indus-
try and socially debased beyond
the understanding of the fortun-
ate, its coming was as welcome
as the dawn to the night watcher.
- . . It is now and henceforth a
definite instrumentality destined
Sreatly to influence the lives of
our people and the internal course
of the Republic.” Urging greater
cooperation between farmers and
labor, Lewis states: “It becomes
increasingly imperative that the
farm population and the millions
of workers in industry must learn
to combine their strength for the
attainment of mutual and desir-
able objectives and at the same
time learn to guard themselves
against the sinister propaganda of
those who would divide and ex-
ploit them.”

Warsaw, Poland. — All papers here
attempting to print Paderewski’s
statement are suppressed. In this
statement, issued from exile at
Norges, Switzerland, the 76-year-
old pianist-statesman urges im-
mediate elections, abolition of
concentration camps and return
from exile in Czechoslovakia of
former premier Wincenty Witos,
leader of the Peasant party.

Tokyo, Japan. — Diet votes addi-_
tional $592,999:999 for Japanese
aggression in China which, since
Japan provoked hostilities this
summer, has already cost an esti-
mated $145,000,000.

Moscow, USSR. — Record harvest,
sufficient to feed entire popula-
tion of Soviet Union for two
years, is reported.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. — Guerrilla
warfare breaks out as new troops,
estimated at 17,000, harry Italian
lines of communication.

September 11 - 17

Vancouver, BC. — Expectant moth-
ers denied aid by relief authori-
ties. :

mania, Bulgaria, Egypt—apree
on naval patrol of Mediterranean
to sink at sight pirate sub-
marines attacking shipping “con-
trary to rules of international
law as laid down in London
naval treaty of 1930.” Since Au-
gust “unknown” submarines
have been attacking neutral
shipping bound for Spanish goy-
ernment ports. Declared the So-
viet Union’s Maxim lLitvinoff:
“We are dealing with govern-
mental piracy. Everyone knows
its aims and the name of the
state that is responsible is on
everyone’s lips, but it cannot be
mentioned in this hall.

Nanking, China—Peace between
Wational government and the
Communists officially announced.
By this agreement the Commu-
nist Red Army becomes the 8th
Route Army and Chinese Soviet
areas are renamed Special Ad-
ministration districts. The 8th
Route Army, rated China’s finest
fighting force, will be command-
ed by General Chu-Teh, brilliant
Communist leader. General
Chiang Kai-shek is pledged by
the agreement to introduce de-
mocracy into China, not to yield
territory to Japan and to fight
Japan to the end.

September 18 - 24
Vancouver, BC.—Charles Stewart,
street railwayman and outstand-
ing trade unionist, returned from
Trades and lLabor Congress,
states:
“The trade union movement in
Canada has travelled 10 years in
the past 12 months.”
Trades and Labor CGouncil
pledges support to Relief Project
Workers’ Union.
“The city has taken away our
jobs, therefore it is up to city
authorities to find us other jobs
er give us funds to live on,” de-
clare white waitresses dismissed
from Chinese cafes under city

ruling.
Fifteen thousand sign petition
, protesting increased telephone
rates.

The Spanish government will be
able to put an army of 1,000,000
men in the field by the end of
the year, A. A. Macieod, na-
tional chairman, Canadian
League for Peace and Democ-
racy, tells Moose Hall meet.
Omaha, Neb.—Im an address before
Q@maha Central Labor Union
Governor Phillip La¥Follette of

Berlin,

gain on three
Cordova, Madrid.
Germany.— Mussolini con-
fers with Hitler On visit to this
city.

fronts—Aragon,

October 2-8

Vancouver, BC—w. R. Bradbury,

organizer of petition against
higher telephone rates now
Signed by 20,000 here, says he
has been approached by inter-
ested parties to drop the cam-
paign, charges attempts made
“to hush the whole thing up.’

Minister of Labor Geo. S. Pear-
son, asked by delegation from

Workers’ Alliance, Relief Project |

Workers’ Union and Ex-Service-
men’s League if government has
any plan for public works
scheme, shrugs: “It’s the concern
of the attorney-general’s depart-
ment if youths are driven to
solicit funds on the streets.”

Im a strike which closed the
majority of British Columbia’s
movie theatres for two days,
Local 348, Projectionists’ union,
wins agreement from Famous
Players Corporation.

Deroche, BC.—Parents here con-
duct stay-home strikes to keep
their children from school until
provincial department of educa-
tion provides transportation.

Toronto, Ont.— Labor, contesting
Ontario provincial elections for
first time, polls considerable vote.
Liberal government of Premier
Mitchell Hepburn returned.
Standing of parties in new
House is: Liberals, 63; Conser-
vatives, 23; Liberal-Progressives,
2; Independent Liberals, 1;
United Farmers of Ontario, 1.
In the old House standing was:
hiberals, 66; Conservatives, 17;
Liberal-Progresives, 4; Independ-
ents, 1; United Farmers of On-
tario, 1; CCF, 1: J. B. Salsberg,
trade union leader running” as
Labor candidate in Toronto St.
Andrew polled 6,302 votes to J. J.
Glass, successful Liberal candi-
date’s 6481. Only the fact that
Harry Simon, CCE candidate,
split the vote, obtaining 880, pre-
vented his election.

Edmonton, Alta. — Jan Lakeman,
Communist, obtains 1,786 votes
in Edmonton provincial by-elec-
tion.

London, Eng.—Hundreds of police
With linked arms hold back
erowd estimated at 100,000 as
Sir Oswald Mosley’s blackshirts
Stage parade through London
streets. Barricades erected by

In Valencia: Supporters of the People’s Front affirm their determination to oust the
invaders and guard their new-found freedom.

Fascist

Wyon,

in a Fascist bombing raid.

League for Peace and Democracy
here opens campaign for boycott
of Japanese goods.

Mrs. Beckie Ewen, secretary,
Friends of the Mackenzie-Papi-
neau Battalion here, returns from
six-weeks tour of northern BC
during which she travelled more
than 2,500 miles.

Vernon, BG. — Three hundred at-

tend mass meeting to hear report
of Belgian Orchard strike com-
mittee.

Cloverdale, BC. — Plight of farmers

in Fraser Valley worsens as feed
costs rise without commensurate
increase in returns from products.

Port Alberni, BC. — Crew of 4500-

ten British steamer Daleroy, in
port here walks off ship when
demands for $75 bonus for each
man refused. The Dalcroy is due
to sail for Dairen, Manchukuo,
next week with a cargo of logs.

Ottawa, Ont. — Trades and Labor

Congress of Canada, in 53rd an-
nual session here, declares for
laber unity, advocates establish-
ment of six-hour day,
week in all occupations with no
reduction in wages, urges govern-
ment monopoly of nickel] deposits,
raps anti-labor policies of provin-
ela] premiers Mitchell Hepburn
and Maurice Duplessis.

Seattle, Wash. — Councilman Hugh

De Lacy elected president of the
Washington Commonwealth Fed-
eration. Convention is attended
by 665 delegates from 25 counties,
including 217 from trade unions,
23 from Democratic clubs.

Mexico City. — Government acts to

forestall move of former minister
of agriculture, General Cedillo, re-

ported to be organizing a fascist #

eollaboration with
and other fascist

uprising in
Nazi agents
elements.

Premier Lazaro Cardenas are ||

nounces in radio broadcast govy-
ernment’s plan for transforming
Yucatan “into a state where Mex-
ican socialism will be thoroughly
Carried on.’

Last year Mexico exported $2,-
250,000 worth of arms and muni-
tions to the Spanish government,
the government's arms report re-
veals.

Switzerland—Wine nations
—Britain, France, Soviet Union,
Wugoslavia, Turkey, Greece, Ru-

Vancouver;
five-day |

Wisconsin says: “By the next
year in many states, and by 1940
in the nation, the old guard of
both parties will be on one side
and the progressives on the
other. There must be a political
realignment that will give the
American people a real choice

between progressive and  re-
actionary government.”
Geneva, Switzerland. — Canada

votes against re-election of Spain
to seat on League Council at As-
sembly of the League, although
other British Dominions—Aus-
tralia, New Zealand, South Af-
rica—decline to follow lead of
reactionary British national goy-

ernment.

Berlin, Germany. — Dr. Hjalmar,
Sechact, minister of economics
and Reichsbank president, re-
sigms.

Vernon, BC.—Sixty-five join newly-
formed Agricultural Workers’
Union.

September 25- October 1
BC.—Charles Parker;
former instructor at Vancouver
Sports Club, was killed in the
recent loyalist offensive on the
Aragon front in Spain, accord-
ing to information received here
by Friends of the Mackenzie-
Papineau Battalion.

Local 348, Projectionists’ union,
wins year’s hoist of provincial
order-in-council under which
number of projectionists to oper-
ating room would have been cut
from two to one, 50 per cent of
working projectionists dismissed,
theatre fire hazards increased.
Attempts made by labor rene-
gades and company union
spokesmen to set up “independ-
ent” labor council in city.

Victoria, BC—IDLA officials leave

for Seattle to seek aid of Mari-
time Féderation in struggle to
organize Victoria waterfront.
Won-union longshoremen have
twice in the past week unloaded
American Mail Line vessels.

Shanghai, China—Japanese planes

bomb Hankow, Wuchang, Han-
yang in Central China. Three
thousand reported slain in mass
air attack on Canton in South
China. Chinese planes defeat
Japanese raiders in air battle
ever Nanking.

Madrid, Spain. — Loyalist forces

Paris,

Victoria,

Denver,

anti-Fascists to
Hundreds mass outside police
court when 96 £anti-Fascists
charged with rioting. This is
Mosley’s third attempt this year
to provoke strife in London by
parading through the streets.
One anti-fascist arrested re-
ceived a month in jail. “I lost
my temper,” he said, “when I
Saw friends of the people who
bombed and machine-gunned
women and children in Spain
parading on London streets.”
Barcelona, Spain. — Loyalists ad-
vance to within two miles of
Jaca, 15 miles south of French
border, key railway point.

block parade.

Wanking, China. — Bighth Route

Army routs Japanese in Shansi
province, capturing quantities of
arms and munitions.

Mme. Chiang Kai-shek, writing
of visit to Shanghai front, states:
“The sight of thousands of
wounded patiently waiting at
every first-aid station for trans-
portation to hospitals in rear
wrings my heart, despite their
magnificent bravery and resigna-
tion to pain. Japanese con-

tempt for non-combatant lives
and humanitarian institutions,
such as hospitals is most
stupid and brutal. My heart

is. chilled by the thought of what
is coming over the rest of the
land in the near and distant
future, with our ports blockaded,
our wide northern regions being
torn by ruin, and all there is
about us here doomed to demoli-
tion. But one thought is domi-
nant—that is, to fight until we
can fight no more.

France. — Following an-
nounceemnt is handed to the
press by the Duke of Windsor
here: “His Royal Highness
makes it known that he and the
Duchess of Windsor are visting
Germany and the United States
in the near future for the pur-
pose of studying housing and
working conditions in these two
countries. . .”

BC. — Crowd of 20,000
cheers President Roosevelt on
visit here.

Colo—American Federa-
tion of Labor convenes here.

Geneva, Switzerland. — League of

ar

In Nice: French soldiers behind the Maginot Line guard democracy
against the menace of Fascist undeclared war.

Seattle,

Chicago,

Wations warns Japan of the pos-

sibility of international action
unless she aprees to a peaceful
nine-power settlement. Resolu-
tion of warning is unanimously
endorsed by 50 nations, Poland
and! Siam abstaining from voting.

Q@ctober 9-15

Vancouver, BC.—John McDonald,

ex-service man, fined $5, for soli-
citing funds without a license in
What is described as “a prece-
dent against soliciting for chari-
table organizations.”
Ald. Alfred Hurry (CCF),
charges race discrimination
When City Council turns down
plea for assistance of white wait-
resses dismissed from Ghinese
cafes,
Workers’ Alliance charges that
inexperienced men.are handling
explosives on city project work.
Harold Griffin, acting editor,
People’s Advocate, urging sup-
port of trade union bill to pro-
tect rights of organized labor, de-
clares in radio speech: ‘There
are in this province 245,000 peo-
ple—one-third of the population
of BC—directly or indirectly re-
liant on mining for their liveli-
hood. And at the same time such
towns as Trail, Anyox, Kimber-
ley, Britannia Beach and VWvells
are company union centres with
all that company unionism im-
plies. Here is a real danger of re-
action and a standing challenge
to organized labor. If labor’s
rights in this province were in-
deed guaranteed by law, then
- - employees of these towns,
given the opportunity to choose
for themselves between the com-
pany unions and the interna-
tional union, would vote for the
international union.”

New Westminster, BC.—Committee

of Royal City trade unionists
and Fraser Valley farmers
formed to oppose tolis on new
Pattullo Bridge across Fraser
River.

Toronto, Ont.—Audience of 10,000
attends opening meeting of Sth
national convention of the Com-
munist party of Canada. Tim
Buck, general secretary, presents
masterly analysis of economic
and political situation in Canada
—"The Communist party advo-
cates people’s unity . . . against
all who are endeavoring to con-
centrate against progress.’ De-
clares Earl Browder, general sec-
retary, Communist party of the
US: “Today on the vital ques-
tions of war and peace there is
essential similarity between the
problems we find to the problems
we both face.” Convention urges
legislation to protect labor's
rights, demands embargo on ex-
port of war materials to Japan,
calls for boycott of Japanese
goods, condemns Canada’s action
in voting against re-election of
Spain to seat on League of Na-
tions Council, asks restoration of
free trading rights to Spanish
government.

Wash.—IlLabor unity con-

ference of CIO and AFL dele-

gates set up here “to organize
the unorganized and restore la-
bor unity.”

Tjl_—President Roosevelt

sets wires humming in speech

here. “. . . The peace-loving na-
tions must make a concerted ef
fort in opposition to those viola-
tions of treaties and those ignor-
ings of humane instincts which
today are creating a state of in-
ternational anarchy and instabil-
ity from which there is no es-
cape through mere isolation or
neutrality. . . It seems to be un-
unfortunately true that the epi-
demic of world lawlessness is
spreading. When an epidemic of
physical disease starts to spread
the community approves and
joins in a quarantine ... against
the spread of the disease. .. War
is a contagion, whether it be de-
elared or undeclared. It can en-
gulf states and peoples remote
from the original scene of hos-
tilities. We are determined to
keep out of war, yet we cannot
insure ourselves against the dis-
astrous effects of war and the
dangers of involvement. We
cannot have complete protection
in a world of disorder in which
confidence and security have
broken down. . . There must be
positive endeavors to preserve
peace, America hates war. Am-
erica hopes for peace. Therefore,

America actively engages in the

search for peace,”

Shanghai, China.——Three autos car-

rying British embassy officials
machine-sunned by Japanese
planes near Minghong, 14 miles
south of here. All cars carried
the union jack. Attitude of Brit-
ish national government is “one
of grave concern.”

Madrid, Spain. —

a
Vatican City, Italy—iIn a private
memorandum the Holy See is re-—
ported to have instructed its
hierarchy and missions in Far
Hast to cooperate wtih Japanese
action in China “wherever Bol
shevist danger appears active.”
Berlin, Germany, — Cries of “Feil
Windsor” greet Duke and Duch-
ess of Windsor in this city on
visit of inspection.

Courtenay, BC. — Colin Cameron,
MLA (CCF, Comox) ejected from
Elk River Timber company’s
camp when he seeks entry to
canvass employees for signatures
to petition urging adoption of
trade union bill:

Paris, France. Cantonal elections

reveal continued strength of
People’s Front government.

Port-au-Prince, Haiti —Dominican
troops fire on Haitian workers
and peasants along Haitian-
Dominican border, killing 500.
President Rafael Leonidas Tru-
jille of Dominican republic is
Said to be seeking pretext to in-
vade Haiti. Plan for Settlement
of 40,000 Nazi “farmers” on
island, just concluded with Hitler
government, reveals evidence of
Fascist linkup.

London, Eng —-Sir Oswald Mosley,

blackshirt leader, knocked uncon-
Scious, suffers concussion, when
crowd at Liverpool pelts him
With stones. ,
Special jury in King’s Bench
division awards Lord Camrose
and the Daily Telegraph a total
of $99,000 damages against the
Action, organ of the British fase-
ists.
October 16 - 22
Vancouver, BC._—“tt is imperative
that Canadian citizens awaken to
a complete understandins of
Political and economic develop-

ments in Canada. Jail camps,
Slave camps, concentration
camps for our youth. Young

men, whose only demand is for
the opportunity to do productive
work, because such Opportunity.
is denied and governments re-
fuse to accept their proper re-
Sponsibilities, are to be interned
in prison camps. . .” This is the
comment of Harold Winch, MLA
(CCE, Vancouver East), on an-
nouncement of the provincial
government that prison camps at
Deroche and Harrison Lake’ are
being opened for Single unem-
ployed men arrested for solicit-
ing on the streets.

New Westminster, BC.— Glose on

4,000 sign petition protesting toll
charges on Pattullo bridge.

London, Eng. — Won-Intervention

Committee hears italy’s proposal
to make a “symbolic recall” of
9,000 “volunteers,” provided pbel-
ligerent rights are granted im-
mediately to General Franco and
an equal number of volunteers
withdrawn from §overnment
forces. Since 5,000 would be a
quarter of International Brig-
ades’ strength and Italy has at
least 100,000 “volunteers” in
Spain, Andre Corbin, French
delegate, insists that recall of
volunteers be in proportion of
four Italians to every govern-
ment volunteer withdrawn.
October 23-29

Vancouver, BC.—Local 882, Inter-

national Operating Engineers,
wins improved wages, Conditions,
from Famous Players corpora-
tion after brief strike.

Ottawa, Ont.—Eixport of Canadian

War materials to Japan con-
tinues to increase. Exports of
nickel have risen from $111,759
for September, 1936, to $344,213
last month. Iron and Steel ex-
ports have risen from $51,817 to
$94,184; lead from $284,978 to
$336,674; zinc from 995,773 to
$134,524; copper from $3,958 to
$131,150; aluminum from $54,-
802 to $262,643.

Albacete, Spain—John T. Bernard,

Minnesota Parmer-Laborite, and
Jerry O'Connell, Montana Demo-
crat, review several thousand
troops of the International Bri-
gades here as first anniversary
of organization of Brigades is
celebrated.

Gijon, last of
loyalist-held towns in the north
falls to. Franco’s Italian and
Moorish troops after gallant de-
fense.

October 30-November 5

Vancouver, BG. — Highty-six dele-

gates attend peace conference
held under auspices Canadian
League for Peace and Democ-
racy in Hotel Vancouver. Reso-
lutions endorsed include demand
for boyeott of Japanese goods,
embargo on shipment of war
materials to Japan. Railway and
dock workers, seamen asked to
refuse to handle goods, exports

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