‘LISTEN IN TO } Labor News - ‘Highlights - CKMO The Peoples Advocate Newspaper Western Canada’s Eeadinmag Prog ressive LISTEN IN TO Labor News Highlights - CKMO Sunday, 9:45 a.m, << Published Weekly. 5 VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1938 Single Copies: 5 Cents VOL. IV, No. 8 | i i) Pritchett Confident Of Appeal “Veclares Hutcheson, eck, Boss Loggers orces Behind His ‘eportation. “FEAR CIO’ (7) $s ing ts. the ta We T ficgin a blunt statement to an iHilvoecate reporter Thursday, wold Pritchett, president of ternational Woodworkers of {erica with a membership of 7er 100,000, named Dave Beck d W. Hutcheson, leading TL officials, and a group of nber operators as being mainly tponsible for his deportation this ek from the United States. i ‘Such individuals are attemptins Ne@stymie the onward march of the : 0, but I have confidence in Am- mjcan democracy, which is based Civil liberties, to reverse what i Giounts to a local decision, in my tio deal against it,” Pritchett stated. PEL seats of the magnitude of Ves: campaign in the United States obtain a vyisa for him, was Iwan to the Advocate. Household mes comprised the “National tigmamittee to gain entry for itchett;” sixty movie stars head- by WLionel Stander recently med on his behalf. "q ritchett, confident that he will 4 Sranted entry to carry on his ‘portant work, stated: ‘For fifty years international or leaders have crossed and re- yssed the line without interfer- *©=—ineinding the late Sam mpers, London-born, one-time ‘LL president. igA telegram from Washington, % delivered during this inter- ‘Ww, informed Pritchett his case = being investigated. Jouncil Backs Jobless Insurance sndorsation of the Union Rights 1, an amendment to the criminal ie sponsored by the CCF, de- med to make illegal interference th employees’ rights to organize d bargain collectively, was given the Trades and Labor Council { Tuesday, Secretary Bengough mg instructed to wire approval J. S. Woodsworth, MP. f& would supplement existing Ovinecial legislation by putting nalties on federal statute books ir employer discrimination Binst labor. i # Harold Pritchett ... president of the International Woodworkers of America, who is confident democratic American public opinion will win him the right to reside in the United States. Widespread protests have been made against his deporta- tian. Motion Hits Reid Stand Trades Council Agrees To Consider C. Stewart’s Motion To Oppose Tom Reid “That this Trades and Labor Council do not support the stand taken by Tom Reid, MP (Lib., New Westminster), because it adversely affects Imnocent victims of war hysteria.” This was the motion submitted by C. M. Stewart to Vancouver Trades and Labor Council, of which he is an executive member, at its meeting Tuesday. At the request of President EH. A. Jamieson, who stated that this was a contentious motion, and that Japanese delegates were present, Stewart agreed to make it a notice of motion, to be taken up at next council meeting. ngineer Fired At Blubber Bay Unable to “elect” a company- yminated committee because em- Solid union the superintendent seized 1 the Diesel incident to dismiss sh, who is a member of the union mmimittee, ignoring an offer by € union to bear the expense of ‘inging a Diesel expert from Van- ‘uver to render judgment on leged carelessness. A telephone message to union Fadquarters in Vancouver to the ‘fect that the men were ready to rike, having taken all the abuse zey could stand, decided district fficials to call for a showdown ith Conciliation Commissioner “cGeough to give a ruling on this ese. Qn a promise from McGeough tat he would proceed immediate- ' to Blubber Bay, the men agreed » await his arrival before taking »rike action. *The dispute at Blubber Bay fates back to last July, when, fol- wing a strike, the company sign- M4 an agreement with the union, ‘hich it has tried to break in every nuceivable manner. j Would Tax Banks ; ; ; | WINNEPEG, Man., March 3A ill to increase taxation on banks 2 percent, passed its second read- mg Wednesday. i] Jnion Charges Pacific Lime Trying To Provoke Strike BLUBBER BAY, BC, March 3.—Union discipline and use the “patience” recently advocated by Minister of Labor G. S. 2arson held employees of Pacific Lime company here on the b in face of open discrimination against Cecil Ash, company igineer, who was dismissed this week for burning out a bearing 1 a Diesel engine, the men holding firm until the promised ar- val of a government conciliation commissioner. Instal ILWU Charter Here Longshoremen Working On City Waterfront Vote To Change AFL For CIO Affiliation First charter of the International Longshoremen and Warehouse- men’s Union, CIO affiliate, to be installed in Vancouver, was grant- ed to a group of working long- shoremen last Saturday, Interna- tional Organizer W. Craft officiat- ing. it is known as Local 1-11, ILWU. The new charter was issued some months ago, but installation was delayed pending organization of an appreciable number of men work- ing on the waterfront. Failing to break the blacklist in use since the 1936 strike, members of Local 38/126, International Longshoremen’s Association, voted last fall to change their AFL affil- iation to that of the CIO longshore body, blacklisted members giving every assistance to the interna- Bengough Condemns Hypocrisy BCElectric Seeking To Add More Profits At Expense Of Car Motormen. —__ POLICY RAPPED Over mass protests, organized and unorganized, the politically powerful BCElectric company continuing to press for the in- stallation of twenty one-man streetears in Grandview district run, this week succeeded in splitting the city council on the issue while brazenly attempting to justify its stand to the public. Adding its weight to Division 101, Street Railwaymen’s Union, which is fighting one-man cars tooth and nail, the Trades and Labor Gouncil at its meeting last Tuesday voted solidly against the proposed inno- vation, sending its president and secretary next day to the council to help swing that body in line with public sentiment. Hypocrisy of the utility company Was scored by Secretary Bengough in an address to the Trades Coun- cil, when he drew attention to the company's admonition, “Please do not talk to the motorman.” “Why, a motorman on one of these cars is forced to do a gen- eral store business when he handles controls, tickets, transfers, change; Imanipulates doors, looking at mir- rors and telling people where to deciared amid iaughter, i his travels through Europe, Bengough maintained, he had never met the equivalent of one- man streetcars. Usually deliberate, Alex Fordyce demanded quick action on the part of all interested in decent trans- portation service and union condi- tions and announced that the BC Electric company stood to save 30 percent on a $600,000 American- made one-man car deal. He believed the company would use every method to push it through. Business Agent Griffin of Divi- sion 101, spoke authoritatively on the health-destroying effects on motormen. He declared that it was not a question of a poor company forced to cut running expenses, “as everyone knows the strong fi- nancial position of this company.” “The best safety device on street- cars is a good operator at the front end of the car and another at the rear,’ Griffin declared to applaud- ing delegates. ‘Military Drill’ Rumors Explained HANEY, BC, March 3—Reeve Solomon Mussallem this week nailed rumors which for some time past have been rife in the Valley to the effect that Japanese residents were conducting military drills. Wooden staffs resembling swords had been used by Japanese in fencing games, provincial police had found on investigation, he said, but since white residents had objected to these games as savor- ing of “militarism” Japanese had taken up badminton. Telford To Speak - Dr. Lyle Telford, M.L.A., will ad- dress a mass meeting at Moose Hall, Sunday, March 6, 8 pm, on “The Plight of Our City.” Telford will meet the social wel- fare committee of the city council Monday morning to urge the in- troduction of milk distribution for the unemployed at reduced price. get off at,” the council's secretary At Teruel This picture was taken shortly before the loyalists were forced by new war supplies from Italy and Germany to evacuate Teruel. Left to right: Dr. Edwin J. Barsky, American Emergency Hospital head; Dr. Wm. Pike, chief medical officer of the American division; Drs. Oscar Weismann and Norman Rintz, assistants. ment which Premier Maurice Housing Need Emphasized City Council Approves Motion To Stress Need For Housing Scheme At Ottawa A motion that Mayor G & Miller stress Vancouver's deplor- able housing conditions at the coming Ottawa conference of mayors, Was passed in city coun- cil last Monday. A letter from Professor F. Buck, chairman of the town planning commission, urging the council to press the federal government for speed with its housing scheme, brought the suggestion from Mayor Miller that he bring up the matter at the Ottawa conference of munic- ipality heads. Unions Support CCF Amendment Miss Mildred Dougan, secretary, Vancouver Citizens’ Committee on Unemployment Insurance this week received notification that the city council had adopted the fol- lowing recommendation of the Social services committee: - “Recommended that the com- munication from Vancouver CGiti- zens’ Committee on Unemployment Insurance advocating that the fed- eral government should bring down legislation to implement unemploy- ment insurance be received, and that that body be notified that the city council has already expressed itself as in favor of such a meas- ure.” Duplessis is using as his chief weapon in a campaign to smash the trade union and progressive movement of Quebec will be fully dealt with by R. L. Calder, KC, vice-president of Montreal Civil Liberties Union, and Malcolm @ Mackenzie Ross, general secretary of the Canadian League for Peace and Democracy, when they speak in Vancouver next week. They will address a mass meet- ing in Moose Hall, next Friday, March i1, at 8 pm, under auspices of the League for Peace and De- mocracy, when leading city bar- risters are expected to support their stand that the padlock law is a violation of traditional British democratic rights. Many BC trade unions and pro- Sressive organizations have al- ready sent resolutions to the fed- eral government demanding the disallowance of the act, under which private homes have been raided, halls padlocked and news- papers banned. R. L. Calder, a rormer senior crown prosecutor for the district of Montreal and one-time editor of the Canadian Century, is the author of a number of books and articles. He saw service with the Royal Highlands during the Great War and was awarded the Military Cross at Amiens. Malcolm Mackenzie Ross until recently was assistant professor of English Literature at lLingnan University, Canton, China. Starting at Hamilton, Ont., on a tour across Canada, Calder and Ross have addressed meetings in all the larger cities, arousing strong opposition to the padlock law, disallowance of which is now under consideration by the federal government. Parity In Sight BARCELONA, Spain, March 3.— (FP)—Huge new supplies of Ger- man and italian planes and artil- lery and the sacrifice of 30,000 to 35,000 rebel troops in recent weeks won the ruins of Teruel back to the fascist forces in Spain. However, the Barcelona govern- ment has promised the republican army that equality with the rebels in guns and aircraft is in sight. ‘Chamberlain Must Go’ Anti-Fascists Demonstrate ONDON, Eng., March 3.—Shout ing “Chamberlain must go!” “Wo pact with fascist Italy!” “Let the people decide!’ 10,000 London anti-fascists this week marched to the Italian embassy in Grosvenor Square, to protest the national gov- ernment’s pro-fascist policies. Halted by police at the entrance to the square, two leaders of the demonstration finally agreed to deliver a letter addressed to Pre- mier Mussolini, condemning Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s tional organizer on the waterfront. “surrender to italian threats and Italian intervention the embassy. in Spain,” at Earlier, thousands heard British Communist leaders denounce the reactionary policies of the Cham- berlain government at a mass rally in Trafalgar Square. Thousands more heard Lard Strabolgi, Labor peer, accuse Lady Ivy Muriel Chamberlain, widow of Sir Austen Chamberlain, the pre- mier’s brother, and Viscountess Astor of meddling in Britain's for- eign policy. Both are members of What Is notorious as the pro-fascist Cliveden set. Condemning Chamberlain for “his truckling to the Italians when faced with the bullying and black- mailing of fascism,” Lord Strabolgi declared: “This country has not got to the position that we must have society ladies trotting about Europe in re- lation to foreign policy. You can understand how subject to flattery they will be in the presence of some of these great he-men, the fascist dictators of Europe.” 2 BC Volunteers Killed, _3 Missing After Teruel Mass Meet Called In City Calder, Ross To Speak On Padlock Law Next Week The year-old padlock Jaw of the Quebec provincial govern- Wm. Spencer Cockings, Victoria; Anker Peter- son, Vancouver, Killed, F riends Advised. BURTON MISSING Word was received last week- end by the Vancouver office of the Friends of the Mackenzie- Papineau Battalion that William Spencer Cockings, formerly of Victoria, and Anker Peterson, of Vancouver, were killed in action with the Mackenzie-Papineau Bat- talion during the recent fighting at Teruel, Spain. Three other British Columbia volunteers in the Canadian batta- lion, James MBalderson, Albert “Yorkie” Burton, unemployed lead- er and former Communist party organizer in this province, and Dunean Burton, were reported missing. Balderson has two brothers in BC, one at Britannia and another at Bralorne. Burton is survived by a father and sister in England. ANCOUVER FIGHTS 1-MAN STREETCARS | Clothing — Shipped To China Canadian Nurse Tells Of Lack Of Medical Supplies, Food Among Partisans. ‘STAND BY CHINA’ Aboard the Empress of Japan when she sails from Vancouver tomorrow will be 1700 lbs. of clothing collected by the Med- ical Aid to China Committee of the League for Peace and De- mocracy and consigned to Agnes Smedley, noted American writer, at Hankow. The clothing: will be distributed among Chinese refugees by Dr. Norman Bethune and Dr. Charles Parsons, now. on the northwest front with the Am- erican medical unit. Miss Jean Ewen, Canadian nurse also with the unit, wrote the Ad- vocate just before leaving Hankow- “We came up here by plane from Hong Kong. There was nothing exciting about the trip except that we flew low all the time. We did not know just how we were going to get in touch with Agnes Smed= ley here at Hankow, but as we stepped off the plane a woman stepped over to me and asked if & were looking for someone. Never dreaming it was Agnes Smedley, I told her, ‘No.2 Then she asked if there were a Dr. Parsons on board the plane and told me she was Agnes Smedley. “We have been welcomed with open arms by the Red Cross and have-undertaken to set up a station behind the front lines which the Red Cross can use as a model. “Dr. Bethune and I are going away up into North Shansi, behind the Japanese lines. “The partisan troops conduct- ing guerrilla warfare behind the Japanese lines are suffering great- ly from want of food. They get only two meals a day and these consisting only of a bowl of millet gruel and salty turnips. Many do not get even this and, as a result, there are a lot of defiency diseases. “You may not hear from me for some time, but I am keeping a de- tailed diary of my work. Watch for Agnes Smedley’s diary on the market. I have read the manu-— seript and it is the most virile piece of work I have yet seen, ex- celling even Edgar Snow's Red Star Over China. “Just bear in mind that by China's people we stana or fall—and we are very determined to stand. International Women’s Day Vancouver To Celebrate With Mass Meet, Concert International Women’s Day, commemorated for the past 30 years throughout the world, will be celebrated in Vancouver this Sunday with a mass meeting and concert at 8 pm in Victory Hall. Leaders from influential women’s organizations in the city will speak. Woods Take Six Lives Truck Driver At Sproat Lake Dies In Hospital At Port Alberni After Accident PORT ALBERNI, BC, March 3. —With the year only two months old, six men have already lost their lives in the British Columbia woods. Latest to lose his life in what is probably the province’s most haz- ardous industry is Robert Shar- nock, 30, who was injured recent- ly when forced to jump from a runaway truck at Camp 3, Sproat Lake. He died in hospital here last Friday. Sharnock was driving a load of logs down the incline to the log dump when the truck slipped out of gear. In an effort to get clear he crashed into debris at the side of the road. Ansell Norman was critically in- jured in a logging accident at this camp last Sunday. Crushed be- tween logs, he sustained broken ribs. Last month an Fiast Indian log- ger named Mongol was killed at the company sawmill. S In an interview with the Advo- eate, Mrs. Annie Stewart, who has been associated with and spoken at many such anniversaries, de- clared that today’s slogan for In- ternational Women’s Day is “Against War and Fascism.” The reason for this, she said, is that women are the greatest victims of the war-makers. “Votes for Women” was the slog- an of the first International Wom- en’s Day in 1908, when the last Sun- day in February was named the day for propaganda on the question of women’s suffrage by the Ameri- ean Socialist party, but in 1910 the date was set at March 8 by the Socialist movement led by the great Clara Zetkin, “to fight for a new social order.” Mrs. Stewart cited the celebra- tions held last year in Spain when 80,000 women paraded in Madrid, stating that in times of crisis mass support of women was vitally ne- cessary to progress. ; Today in British Columbia. Mrs. Stewart stated, International Wom- en’s Day should be utilized to unite women against high living costs and the growing danger of reaction and fascism. She also advocated the boycott of Japanese goods in order to aid the cause for peace. ACCL To Convene LONDODN, Ont., March 3.— (FP). —The All-Canadian Congress _of Labor’s eighth annual convention will be held here the week of April ii.