; December 31, 1937

? will be ‘the strengthening of the
p-ommunist party in BC as a pre-
P-equisite to the building of a pro-
E -ressive people’s movement to de-
eat reaction.

‘7 Mass Meeting
© Setting a precedent, Tom Ewen,
Esrovincial secretary, will deliver the
ain political report, “For a Pro-
jessive People’s Movement in BG,”
t a public meeting te be held in
ictory Hall Auditorium, Homer
treet, Hriday, January 4, at 8 pm.

©, Other speakers will include repre-
| entatives of the central committee
)f the Communist Party of Canada,
))f the Washington district commit-
mee of the CP of the United States
7) 2d of the Alberta district, CP of GC.
>) At the session on Saturday in the
JJkranian Labor Temple, which will

}rt, provincial executive member of
She Prades and Labor Congress of

"Panada, will give the trade union
: “Building the Trade Unions

| Admission to the Sunday session,
92 which the main feature will be
‘she report of Fersus McKean, pro-
ineial organizer, ‘‘Weld the Party
i Progress,’. will be by member-
hip card only. Election of a pro-
incial committee of 18 will also
“jake place at this session.
Chairmen of committees will be
s follows: Presidium, Fergus Mc-
jsean; Resolutions, H. Brown; Nom-
iations, Charles Stewart; CGreden-
als, Harold Griffin.

> “Principal points under discussion
ill be the expansion and unifying
3 the trade union movement in BG
)2d unity between the CCF and the
omimunist party,” Fersus McKean
yid the PA this week. “‘The neces-
ty of all progressive forces joinine
»> elect their candidates to muni-
) pal office will undoubtedly be
sressed. Progressives in the Bast
od on the prairies have shown us
hat can be achieved by unity. In
ar Own city of Vancouver, because
uis essential unity was lacking the
Sactionary WWon-Partisan - Associa-
on Swept the polls. When one
duples this with the gains made by
1e Conservative party in the pro-
ncial elections the growing threat
= reaction in this province is clear.
‘ertainly the Pattullo government,
‘rongly pressed by the representa-
ives of finance capital and lacking
cessure from a strong, unified
ovement of the people, has shown
> distinet capitulation to reaction.”

es

‘und Organized
» By WA, Catholics

) MATLLARDVILLE, BC, Dec. 29.
Organized jointly by the Workers’
lliamce and the Catholic Order of
Poresters here, $287 was collected
»'r a Christmas cheer fund in a re-
"nt canvass of citizens residing in
few Westminster, Maillardville,
‘urquitiam and Fraser Mills town-
> <e, a later, special collection being
» ade for seven children who other-
ise would have been ieft out.

) Clothing, candy and toys were
»ught with this sum and distrib-
ed among 169 needy children of
» years and under in Coquitlam
Strict.

Two prize drawings in connection
» ith the convass, held Nov. 14, and
) 2c. 12, were won by EB. Parent, G.
J uplin, Miss J. Bourassa, ©. Swen-
\n, J. Batheway, A. Deshambault,
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be held Dec. 31, 9:30 pm, at 37 Hast
Pender street under auspices of the
Young Communist League. Pro-
ceeds will go toward the $200 BC
drive for New Advance, youth mag-
azine.

Grandview Women’s Club donated
$50, the proceeds of a bazaar held
Dec. 4th, TOOF hall, Graveley street.
Miss Annie Ripley holding raffle
ticket number 34 won the quilt.
Wext meeting of the club is on Wed-
nesday, Jan. 12, 1716 Charles street.

Mothers’ Council meets every
Tuesday, 2:30 pm, at the O’Brien
Hall, 404 Homer street.

Ticket number 146, held by Tom
Brown, won the prize at Kitsilano
Progressive Glub raffle.

East Vancouver section of the
Communist party is holding its con-
vention Sunday, Jan. 9, 10 am at
the German Workers’ Hall on Main

Street. Visitors are invited.

Vancouver Mothers’ Council en-
tertained 75 member of the Relief
Project Workers Union Wednesday
evening at O’Brien Hall, 404 Homer
street.

Plenty of food was available for
the boys, many of whom are refused

registration for the forestry camps
and are without relief.

A group of mothers devoted to
the welfare of the single unem-
ployed, worked hard in the cooking
and serving of the banquet after so-
liciting donations from a number
of city firms for this affair.

Plenty of talent was forthcoming
from union members to entertain
at the concert which followed the
banquet, and music items were
Siven by other young people who
volunteered their services.

Among those donating to the al-
fair were Dr. L. Telford, Dr. W. J.
Curry, Women’s Auxiliary of the
Longshoremen, Rev. A. Roddan,

Dean Armitage, Mrs. McMillan, and
others.

Hoodstuffs were supplied by Mal-
kins, Kelly Douglas, Gainers, Glazo
doughnut makers, MeGavin's bal-
ery, Four-X, and Hastings Bakery.

NEW WESTMINSTER, BC, Dec.
29. — There will be approximately
500 more names on the civie voters’
list here when the January elections
are held. The majority of this in-
erease is accounted for by married
men transferring a half interest in
their homes to their wives, and in
this way allowing two to vote onthe
Same property qualification.

About 50 new names have been
added to the supplementary list of
householders.

Boycott Japanese Goods.

City Businessman Convicted

March and December,
of prostitution of a

girl, a chorus girl and artist’s
model, whose clientele were Chi-
nese.”

Declared Magistrate Woods
passing sentence.
“This is one case which has

in

given me considerable difficulty. I

think he has been punished
enough.”
Vogwill, according to character

witnesses and defense council, has
been prominent in business and
church circles, is paid $100 a month
as a retainer by a large marine
underwriting firm which also pays
him considerable commissions.

Prosecutor Oscar Orr stated
Vogwwill got little money from the
woman as she paid part of the
room rent and occasionally bought
bis meals.

Qne witness offered an explana-
tion that Vogwill was probably in-
fatuated with the woman in the
case and that he was not con-
cerned with her earnings.

Involved in the case is Mah Chee,
who will be charged with white
Slavery, Prosecutor Orr declaring
to the court that Vogwill and the
firl will appear as Crown wit-

nesses in the case against the Chi-
nese.

When arrested December 21,
Vogwill was sitting in his auto
near Chinese bunkhouses on Mar-
ine Drive and the girl was alleged-
ly in one of the-bunkhouses. He
pleaded guilty December 23.

Seattle Youth
Adopts Program

SEATTLE, Wash., Dec. 29. — An
all-city youth conference here spon-
sored by the youth section of the
Washington Commonwealth Fed-
eration, has endorsed a five-point
program of action.

Major points keynoting the con-
ference are:

1. Defeat Mayor John F. Dore
for re-election in Seattle.

2. Boycott goods made in Japan.

3. Promote labor unity.

4. Aid in establishment of a trade
union recreational centre.

9. Seek a constitutional amend-
ment against child labor.

MOSCOW, USSR, Dec. 29-—Over
51,000 new members have been ad-
mitted into the Communist party of
the Soviet Union in Moscow and
Leningrad since the party resumed
acceptance of new members a year
ago. In addition over 46,000 persons
Were made candidates for mem-
bership.

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Eight days in jail, the period of his waiting for trial, was
Magistrate H. S. Wood’s sentence in police court Tuesday
on 48-year-old John Albert Vogwill, 2514 West Sixteenth
avenue, the charge being specifically worded: “Between
1937, he lived in part off the avails

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Bitter House
Session Seen

Reaction Is Preparing
Sharp Attack On King
Govit’s Home, Foreign
Policies.

OTTAWA, Ont.. Dec. 29.—Indica-
tions point to a more important
third session of the eighteenth
parliament opening late in January,
than was the case for either of the
two preceding Sessions.

Last year the government was
anxious to get through the session
with indecent celerity before the
coronation and the Imperial confer-
ence. Bennetts party was in rags
and tatters. Bennett himself held
the leadership but insecurely and
without assurance of continuity. He
adopted a placatory mood.

With one exception no major is-
sues were raised except such as
came from the CCE benches. For
the most part they were lost in the
bustle of Tory and government
hurry to get away to London.

The exception was important.
Debate on the increased home de-
fence estimates, always important
these days because of intimate re-
lationship with Imperial, foreign
and peace policies, saw emergence
of a dissenting group from within
the Liberal party.

it joined with CCH members in
an effort to press the government
more closely to popular opinion.

Already there are strong indica-
tions that it will be repeated in
changed but heightened form on
more than one occasion during the
coming session. It might well lead
to more definite political alignments
in the country. It does contain some
of the rudimentary elements that go
to the formation of a national peo-
ple’s front.

That is important. Particularly
next year, with a general election
possible in the fall and a certainty
for 1939, all the forces at Bennett’s
command and at the command of
others seeking reactionary aggran-
dizement will be more incisive~ Pro-
gressive demands, too, are more
clearly indicated and their propon-
ents more insistent.

Minister of Defence Ian Mac-
Kenzie has already taken to “pre-
paring”’ public opinion for another
large defence estimate, possibly in
excess of last year’s $35,000,000.

Western Liberals and CCF mem-
bers, both supported by strong pop-
ullar opinion, are certain to be in-
sistent on greater federal responsi-
bility for social services, provincial
fiscal commitment and a down-
ward revision of tariffs.

From Bennett's recent utterances
it would appear he is likely to in-
directly attack greater assistance to
the west under cover of an attack
on the government’s “bad handling”
of drought relief.

This attack will be all the more
severe as Bennett will find it diffi-
cult to forgive the minister of ag-
riculture for pulling the props from
under the reactionary People’s
League in Alberta—and that inci-
dent may afford a reflection of the
way King will go if enough popular
support is mustered for progress.
Bennett will likely welcome the re—
cent Hepburn-Duplessis axis by ac-
tion if not by word.

On matters of foreign policy the
CCF is certain to be critical of
Eing’s League of Nations and peace
policies—or the lack of their pro-
gressiveness. In this, they will prob-
ably enjoy considerable support
from western and some eastern Lib-
éral ranks. Popular opinion will de-
mand statements on Japan and the
nickel shipped there.

transported the length of Shansi
province by peasant carts—from
the third week of September to
the third week in October.

How many died on the way they
did not know, but they were many.
And often they were without food
for two or three days. There were
mo doctors, no nurses, no first-aid
workers with them. <A military
officer in the littel town seemed to
be in charge of their transport,
but the only care they had came
from the peasants who drove their
Wagons, or they attended to their
own wounds. Their bandages
showed that they had not had any
medical care for days or perhaps
weeks.

They did not speak of this, but
merely answered our questions,
and it seems that they expected
nothing. They walked or sat in

- pain, or they lay in the anguish

of their wounds but they made
mo demands. These wounded
were from the Shansi provincial
army.

Trainloads of Wounded

As we rolled northward, train-
loads of wounded passed us, the
wounded sitting in open box-cars.
Only the severely wounded or the
very sick lay down. There was no
room for others to lie down. They
had no blankets and most of them
no overcoats,

One thousand wounded a day.
Thirty thousand a month. Yet this
Was not all. The next day we tall
ed with medical officials in
Taiyuan, and visited some of the
base hospitals. There are eighteen
hospitals in Shansi province for
the wounded, built to accommodate
five to six thousand men. They
now are filled with 15,000 wounded.

There is not one X=ray. They
have not enough bandages, not
even enough surgical instruments,
not half enough medicine. One
doctor does the work of a dozen
men, and the nurses work in a
similar manner. The doctors be-
gin work at four in the morning
and they end their late at night.

They have no time to train new
nurses.

There is but one emergency
training school for nurses in

Taiyuan, and only 100 young men
and women students are studying
in it. The course is only three
months. There is no training for
first-aid work at all, we were told.

in the 10th Base Army Hospital
in Taiyuanfu are 1,300 wounded.
This month this hospital cared for
7,000 wounded, last month for 5,000.
The death rate is from ten to
twenty per cent, men dying from
tetanus and from loss of blood.
There is no blood transfusion, and
there is no tetanus anti-toxin
serum. Along the Worth Shansi
battle front, extending for hun-
dreds of li, there are only seven
motor trucks transporting the
wounded.

Behind Japanese Front

Wor does this complete the pic-
ture by far. For the wounded that
fill the trains to the south, and the
wounded in the hospitals in Shansi,
are from three forces only: the
Shansi provincial army, some of
General Fu Tso-yi’s army, a few
Tungpei cavalrymen, and the men
from the Central government
armies.

Since the main body of the
Tungpei cavalry, some of Gen-
eral Fu Tso-yi’s troops, and the
entire 8th Route army are fighi-
ing behind the front lines of the
Japanese, so that the Japanese
are between them and Taiyuan-
fu, it is difficult to say what the

condition of their wounded is,
although they lkave their own
medical service and bases.

The situation along the north-
western front is a dangerous and
serious one. Large numbers of
wounded die in silence on the bat-
tlefield, on mountain sides and at
mountain passes, and on the plains
throughout the northwest.

We are preparing for a new big
Japanese offensive, with its heavy
toll of dead and wounded, with
the Chinese soldiers defending
their country against an invading
enemy armed with all mechanical
instruments of death. The north-
western front needs help to save
the men who remain at their posts
until brought down by the enemy.
They demand little, they are silent,
but they deserve all that it is
within the power of modern medi-
cine to give.

John Queen Raps
Que. Padlock Law

WINNIPEG, Man., Dec. 29.— “A
serious situation has arisen in that
province (Quebec)—an absolute de-
nial of the rights of free speech,
free press and freedom of assembly,”
stated John Queen, mayor-elect for
Winnipeg in speaking in the Mani-
toba legislature in reply to the
throne.

Queen went on to say that it was
a serious matter to the rest of
Canada when a group of young
men, giving the fascist salute, could
enter the office of the mayor of
Montreal and tell him to stop a pub-
lic meeting or there would be a
Serious riot.

Comparing Alberta and Quebec,
Queen showed that there had been
legislation passed in the latter, in-
fringing on the rights of the people;
in the former taxing the bankers.
Wo interference came to the invok-
ing of the padlock law in Quebec
but in Alberta it was entirely dif-
ferent—the bankers were protected
by the supreme court disallowing
the legislation.

Line Up For Jobs

Unemployed workers were lined
up from the government employ-
ment office, Homer street, to Rich-
ards street, Monday, applying for
jobs shovelling snow. Many without
overcoats and wearing oxfords were
unable to apply again next day be-

cause of drenching rains.

THE PEOPLE’S ADVOCATE Page Five
BM Arcrnd tre Chey) 0M [tee

Secretary of State Cordell Hull

nations by such incidents.

Smug and smirking, Japanese Ambassador Hirosi

Admiral Yarnell'’s report indicates that the attack in which
The opinion has been advanced that the militarist Tokyo reg

to offer official “regrets”

Saito poses for pictures just before meeting US
for the bombing of the USS Panay. US
several persons perished was deliberate.
ime is testing the patience of the Western

J. Collingwood PA Booster

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Boo ‘Prince’
At Calgary

Ukranian Pretender Is
Jeered By Audience As
He Appears At Alberta
City Meet

CALGARY, Alta., Dec. 29. — A
mixed reception greeted self-styled
Prince Danylo Skoropadsky, Uk-
ranian pro-fascist, visiting here this

week during a tour of Canada, when
he attempted to lecture on the need
for Ukranian independence from
the Soviet Union.

Hoots and catcalls greeted the
“Prince” when he declared:

“Qur plans te restore the mon-
archy are still in the preparatory
stage. First we must arouse 2
national feeling among our peo-
ple.”

Skoropadsky is being feted by
groups of nationalists in Calgary,
Banff, Winnipeg and eastern cities.
His father was once made King of
the Ukraine for eleven months, Cal-
gary papers stated.

Investigations made by the PA
among local progressive Ukranians
show that this would-be king may
pay a visit to Vancouver in the new
year. Above the chuckles in local
Ukranian circles at what probably
awaits Skoropadsky here may be
felt indignation at the program put
forward by the group he represents,

“This man is a faker like his
father before him, who was handed
a crown by German imperialists
during the world war. The group
he represents has as much chance
as Charlie McCarthy of inflaming
his countrymen against the Social-
ist Ukraine,” a member of the UL
WTA declared.

People’s Advocate
Ball, January 28

People from all over the province,
young and slim, not so young and
not so slim, from up country and
down country, people from Vancou-
ver, New Westminster and the Fra-
ser Valley, will be gathered into
one joyous merry-making throng on
Jan. 28th at the spacious and beau-
tiful Hastings Auditorium for the
most delightful rendezvous of the
year, the People’s Advocate Annual
Ball.

No matter what your whims may
be, the PA Ball has been specifically
planned to satisfy even the most dis-
criminating. Take an equal part of
good fellowship, add glorious sur-
roundings, mix with enchanting
dance music and throw in a dash of
adventure and you have the best
evening’s -~ entertainment of 1938
made to your order.

Tickets may be had at the PA
office, Room 10, 163 West Hastings
street or the New Age Book Shop.
Those wishing to come in parties
may make reservations by phoning
Trinity 2019.

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Readers of the PA throughout the province who have
never met modest J. Collingwood, one of the most consistent

wish him the season’s greet-

readers for the new year.

This overseas veteran was a
Stationery engineer until the
crash in 1929, and although get-
ting along in years, without a pen-
sion from his grateful country, he
promptly became an active mem-
ber of the Ex-Seryicemen’s League,
taking particular interest in circu-
lating the Rank and File veteran,
then its colorful news sheet.

His persistency and powers of
salesmanship can be judged by his
dispoSal of 300 copies weekly of
the veterans’ organ. He later
handled the Labor Defender for

the Canadian Labor Defense
League, the Moscow News, BC
Workers’ News.

Independent always, Golling-

wood’s reward is the knowledge
that he is assisting the forces of
progress in BC in the fight for
unity of the people and a better
world.

Born in England, 1873, he came
to Canada in 1898 and learned that
the cards are stacked against
working people until they are or-
§anized and clear in understand-
ing. This is why he has devoted
himself to the distribution of the
progressive press, knowing that it
is both an agitator and organizer.

Peace and goodwill are not just
phrases to Collingwood. He works
untiringly toward this ideal.

SEAMEN

(Continued from page 1)

typical seaman, declared to the PA
that.the BC Shipping Federation
which controls the BCG Towboat
Association, has spread the fear of
discrimination through the ranks
of the seamen, being directly re-
sponsible for present intolerable
wages and conditions prevailing on
coastwise ships.

“The Shipping Federation
brought all kinds of pressure on
the BE government for retention
of compulsory arbitration atfer it
Was seen that a labor bill would
inevitably be passed in the last
session,” Maskell declared.

The PA was informed that sea-
men had been making a serious
study of the new BC labor legisla-
tion and were convinced that it
can be largely utilized to forward
their organizational aims.

Formation of one international
industrial union of all American
and Canadian seamen is the aim
of advanced trade union seamen,
said Maskell, who read portions of
a pamphlet written for this pur-
pose by a committee composed of
members from Inland Boatmen’s
Union of the Pacific, National
Maritime union, Sailors’ Union of
the Pacific, Marine Cooks and
Stewards Association of the Paci-
fic, Pacific Coast Firemen, Oilers,
Watertenders and Wipers Associa-
tion.

Said Maskell: “While we are at-
tending to the business of building
the Inland Boatmen, we realize
that the trade union movement in
the province must also get a move
on to loosen the grip of the Ship-
ping Federation on the livelihood
of Canadian seamen.” :

Boycott Japanese Goods.

FISHERIES

(Continued from page i)

standard of living for our workers,
and causing great and unnecessary
suffering to those workers and te
the people of Alaska.”

Spies Hmployed

But fishing for salmon is not
the only purpose of the Japanese
inyasion of American waters. Ac
cording to reports sent to Wash-
ington, the majority of the Japa-
nese crews raiding American wa-
ters are not made up. of mere fish-
ermen, but of spies employed by
the Japanese intelligence service,
Most of the Japanese intelligence
agents act as officers of the fish-
ing boats, according to high rank-
ing US naval officers.

Wot only are there valuable fish
in Alaskan waters, but there is
Virgin territory, containing vast
stores of oil, iron, gold and other
natural resources greatly desired
by Japanese imperialists. As a re-
sult of persistent demands of trade
unions, civic organizations, and
other sections of the population,
the US navy conducted two cruises
in July and the early part of Sep-
tember by powerful squadrons
from the American battle fleet. _
The findings of the investigation
were that there were approximate-
ly 90 per cent of naval reservists
among the officers and crews of
the Japanese fishing vessels operat-
ing in Alaskan waters.

The US state department hag
designated Leo Sturgeon, former
member of the US consular sery-
ice at Yokohama, Dairen and
Tokyo, to conduct a further in-
vestigation into the raids by Japa-
nese fishing boats on the Alaska
coast. The government has also
asked the Japanese government
that Sturgeon and his aides be
given permission to inspect Japa-
nese boats operating in Alaskan
waters.

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