Page Two THE PEOPLES ADVOCATE THE PEOPLE’S ADVOCATE Published Weekly by the Proletarian Publishing Association, Room 10, 163 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, B.C. Phone Trinity 2019- One Year —.._----—— $2.00 Three Months Haif Year —___-..$1.00 Single Copy ----—--— $ .05 Make All Cheques Payable to: The People’s Advocate Vancouver, B.C., Friday, October 14, 1938 A Trotskyist Unmasks HE FEDERATIONIST, official organ of the CCF, has on several occasions com- plained of the Adyocate’s warnings against Trotskyist influence in the CCF and the dam- age caused. It may be that many CCF members were led to believe the warnings were a veiled form of attack against their party, instead of ex- pressions of genuine concern for the welfare of the CCF. The fact is that instead of magnifying Trotskyist influence, it has been underesti- mated. Evidence of this and the extent to which the counter-revolutionary poison has eaten into the vitals of the CCF was seen in the disgraceful scene presented in Mount Pleasant Hall Wednesday night when the pro- vincial president of the CCF, W. W. Lefeaux, addressed a public meeting using as his text the notorious book, “The Revolution Be- trayed,’ by Trotsky. Lefeaux unqualifiedly endorsed Trotsky’s volume of lies and slanders, his only quarrel being with the title—because in the opinion of the cracker-box doctrinaires of the SF of C, most of whom haye gone into the Trotskyist camp, there was no revolution in Russia. Lenin and the Bolsheviks did not overthrow capitalism in the way the SPC spittoon phil- osophers thought it could, or should, be done. Consequently, there was no proletarian revo- lution. © EFREAUX agreed with Trotsky that Lenin and the Bolshivik party depended on the revolution in Germany to maintain and de- velop the revolution and build socialism, and when that did not materialize, of course capi- talism was not overthrown. Here is Trotsky’s theory of the permanent revolution, ie., that socialism cannot be built in one country. The Moscow trials of traitors showed the whole world that Trotsky had his secret or- ganization in the Soviet Union, that he was in league with Hitler’s secret police (Gestapo) and the secret service and general staffs of capitalist states, and was paid by these ene- mies of the Soviet Union. The overwhelming evidence at the trials, together with the confession of the Trotskyist traitors, proved beyond a shadow oft a doubt that Trotskyism is the advance guard of fas- cism and counter-revolution. Trotsky’s book, which Lefeaux endorsed and from which he extensively quoted, is rec- ognized throughout the world as anything but history, as a vile concoction of lies and slan- der to cover up his hatred of the land of socialism which he betrayed and which, in league with the fascist states, he is trying to destroy. And this is the book which the pro- vincial president of the CCF recommended strongly “to all students of social and eco- nomic conditions.” One of the “proofs” (given him by Trotsky) that the victory of socialism was not possible in the Soviet Union was the swift proletarian revolutionary justice handed out to the Trotskyist traitors. e T IS not necessary to give all the statements of Lefeaux. Ninety per cent of his alleged speech, made to an audience of about 60 per- sons, most of whom were well known local Trotskyist disrupters, consisted of direct quo- tations from the Trotsky book. The counter-revolutionary utterances of Tefeaux are more than the vaporings of an in- dividual. Because of the office he holds in the CCF he bespatters his party with filth from the Trotskyist sewer of counter-revolutionary fascism. Had the repeated warnings of the Advocate been heeded and resolute action taken against the Trotskyists, the CCF would not have been stained as it has by Lefeaux. And only a de- cisive purge of every vestige of Trotskyism ean remove that stain and prevent the CCE from degenerating into a Canadian POUM dominated by Trotskyist Fifth Columnists. Gut of Siep DE Canadian labor’s desire for unity in its ranks, splitting forces are continu- ing their subversive, undemocratic work. Thus J. F. Cauley of Hamilton, Ont., has the effrontery to boast to the 58th annual conven- tion of the American Federation of Labor now meeting in Houston, Texas, that his rump council was the first on the continent to obey William Green’s order to oust ClO unions. A banner hung by him in the Houston Coli- seum, invites the AFL eonvention to meet in Fiamilton next year as a reward for his coun- cil’s splitting tactics. Cauley failed to tell the assembled dele- gates, many of whom greeted President Roosevelt’s peace message and desire labor unity, that the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada in its recent convention over- whelmingly voted for unity. He did not men- tion that his rump council is the solitary council in Canada which has the dubious dis- tinction of having split the ranks of organized labor. Canadian labor must continue to guard labor unity and see that the congress reso- ution is lived up to the letter.—Daily Clarion. «Jewels of the West” LONDON, ENGLAND T ONE time in British history the West Indies were the most important part of the Em- : pire, both commercially and strategically. Fleets cruised and battled off their shores, fat merchantmen rolled out of their harbors homeward bound. Then for a century they receded from the consciousness of the British public, and from the foreground of interest of statesmen. Im the last two years, however, this process has been rapidly re- versed. This has been due to two factors; the labor troubles and the shadow of war. For it is es- sential to British naval strategy that the Caribbean should be a safe area for trans-Panama ship- ping, and that West Indian oil— more important than ever with the encroachments by interna- tional fascism on the available world fields—should be reserved completely and in full efficiency for the navy. Alj Britain, no matter what its political complexion, is therefore interested in the islands today. Hacts and surveys are freely pub- lished, and the Commission in- vestigating. conditions has been fiooded with applications from distinguished people for permis— sion to serve. The facts so far as they have been made public are disturbing te the public. REECH JONES stated in the House of Commons: “In the report of the Commission of Bar- badoes, the Commissioners say, ‘Tt would appear that Hunger or fear of hunger was the chief cause of the outbreaks in the country districts.’ For telling the workers in Barbados to organize themselves with a view to getting some kind of social and industrial reform, their first leader was de- ported and the second leader was sentenced to 10 years’ hard labor.” The facts are, indeed, clearly in evidence. The 300-years-old coi- ony of Trinidad has a population of 450,000. A bare 26,000 have the franchise. Oil workers received 60 cents a day, Sugar workers 65 cents a day, agricultural workers 40 cents a day. Housing condi- tions were described by the last Royal Commission as ““indescrib- able in their lack of elementary needs’; child labor is rampant. But the Apex (Lrinidad) QOilfields have received 1744% percent prot- its in the last five years. Against these conditions Trini- dad workers struck under the leadership of Uriah Butler, whose appeal will shortly come before -the Privy Council. They won a measure of sympathy from the governor, Sir Murchison Fletcher. They won the open support of Colonial Secretary Howard Nankivell, who demanded “a fair Gays wages for a fair days work.’ Eletcher has been re- moved—in disgrace. Wankivell was shuffled off to Cyprus. AMATCA has a similar story. A population of 1,200,000, an elec- torate of 66,000. Sugar workers receive 40 cents a day, laborers 50-75 cents a day. Infant mortal- ity exceeds by far the worst in British slums. And Tate & Lyle, owning the sugar companies operating in the islands, recora profits over the last five years of $36,937,975. Public interest has been stirred even more deeply by the arrival in Britain of Miss Una Marston, Jamaica’s first woman playwright. “Tt is popularly believed in Bri- tain,’ she says, “that Jamaica i5 @ paradise with beautiful sea- breezes and stately palms. That is true in a way, but it hides the real picture. The slums of King- ston are something to be seen to be believed. “Shacks fit only for cattle, made of bits of old tin and palm-leaves, are the home of thousands of the IWegro families. Even potatoes are a luxury eaten only on feast days. The children are mere skele- tons with sunken eyes and bony hands. Their parents can only af— ford to give them one meal a day, and that contains hardly any nu- trition.” Captain Gracey, Tondon philanthropic worker, says, “I remember visiting Ja- jmaica some years ago; and being appalled then by the condition of the children—the whole child population of the villages under- nourished. Ever since then things have been getting worse. I am impressed by the extreme pa- tience of the colored people and think that no other people would for so long have put up with such misery.” Tt is certain that with inecreas- ing organization in the islands and pressure on public opinion in Britain from all interests con- cerned, a drastic effort can be forced on the Colonial Office to restore industry, trade and pros- perity to the West Indies; and to raise the living-standard and pur- chasins-power of the population. svell-known The Spirit Of France By David Scott PARIS, FRANCE AM NOT SURE now which was the worst day here so far. Was it the day after Hitler’s closing speech at Nuremberg, when rioting broke out in the Sudetenland and it seemed that full-blooded war must follow? OQr was it the Thursday when Paris learnt the incredible news that, aot content with “selling the pass” in London and undermin- ing every effort to present a firm front to Germany, France’s for- eign minister had told the Czechs during the night that their pledged ally would abandon them if they did not accept the Lon- don terms in full? That was a black day for the French people; blacker than the previous days of crisis, for fear of war was not removed by the be- trayal and bitter shame was d- ded to it. : All through that day people with inside Knowledge gave me the same reaction. All were furi- ously angry and bitterly ashamed. Wot so much because a minister whom many distrusted had taken it upon himself to denounce a treaty, but because France, who with all her faults has never yet betrayed a political engagement, had shown herself ready to betray the Czechs in their hour of need. Qn that black Thursday fear was driven out by shame and anger. The war cloud was for- gotten under the darker cloud of disgrace. Workmen, waiters, small shop- keepers, bus-conductors, all the modest but, in this country, highly independent individuals who g0 to make up the petit peuple, feel no burning desire to make war for the Czechs or anybody else; but they also feel dimly that greater issues than ownership of the Sudetenland are in the bal- ance. “T don’t want to fight,’ many of them have told me, “but this state of affairs can’t go on. The more we give to Hitler the more he will want, and we shall have to fight him in the end. Rather than reizeat any further, let us fight now and be done with it” Let us turn now from the gilded salons of the Quai d’Orsay, where M. Bonnet (thinly disguised as the foreign office spokesman) shuffles and stammers through his evening press conference. Let us turn from the apprehensive drawing-rooms, the blaring caba- rets, the doubting cafes. ET us turn to the salt, the backbone, the eternal soul of France; to those who get nothing and give everything in the clash of poténtates and pow- ers; to the simple chap in overalls and his simple girl-friend, woman or wife in felt slippers and black calico apron; to those on whom in the last resort, the execution of high policy depends. We turn left up the Boulevard de Strasbourse. To the Gare de VHst (where troop trains leave for the frontier). We halt before a row of lighted arches, in and out of which a dark flood of humanity twists and turns. In the great concrete vestibule of the station some farewells are still being said; most have been cut.short by authority. There are no tears, for the families are not admitted to the station. Instead there is hurry, a superficial con- fusion which the individual, in France, is left to solve and solves successfully. Wou will see everywhere signs of perplexed obedience, nowhere a trace of revolt or panic. A press photographer’s flashlight draws a raised fist and a shout of “A bas le fascisme!” here and there. These are the ones who have no property to dispose of, no time or means to arrange for the safety of their relatives, little clear thought of the morrow. The mo- pilization order took them un- awares—in the tenement, in the cafe, at their work. Their readi- ness is pathetic; they wear the mechanic’s overalls, the navvy's corduroys, the messenger’s cycling shoes and sweater in which fate found them. She beckoned in the night, and they have come. Civil Liberties Union Fights Padiock Editor, People’s Advocate: Dear Sir—As a representative of a group of citizens fighting for those civil liberties which are cherished by the Canadian people, I should like to avail myself of your correspondence column to Set before your readers a few facts reparding the present situ- ation in the province of Quebec. Under the Padlock Act, police- men are ransacking without pro- per warrant the home of private citizens. They are carrying away books, papers and other personal property. INot only are they pro- hibiting the free expression of opinion, through the press and by word of mouth, but they are ac- tually driving citizens out of their homes. Recently a citizen of the city of Quebee was forced out of his house and, with his wife and chil- dren, put into the street. Denied aecess to their shelter and cloth- ing and furniture, the family are destitute. Moreover, during the year the house is padlocked, the evicted are held. responsible for the rent. They are conyicted without trial and have no fre- course in law. The CGanadian Civil Liberties Union has taken up their cause, as one in a mumber of test cases, after having failed in its attempt —backed by thousands of citizens in all parts of Canada—to have the Padlock Act disallowed by the federal government. To carry on this work we need money, and we have instituted a campaign to raise $10,000. Believ- ing that no Canadian can be in- different to the assault on his traditional liberties, we are mak- ing the appeal Dominion-wide. the Canadian Civil Liberties Union exists to defend the free- dom of all Ganadians. We as& the support of all Canadians who are zealous to defend this free- dom. —Hubert Desaulniers, Chairman, Canadian Civil Liberties Union, Montreal Branch. 1405 Peel Street, Montreal, Que. Advice to Aggressors EINE Herren and Signori, Clients of the British Tory, Kindly note that Number 10 Requests your patronage again. Opening as from today As Chamberlain & Daladier, Wessrs. Hoare-Laval, successors, For doing business with aggressors. = ‘RONTIERS promptly liquidated, Coups d’etat consolidated, Pledges taken and exchanged, Acquisitions rearranged, Loans on fascist risks advanced, Wazi enterprise financed, European intervention Given personal attention. Have you problems of partition? Tet us send a British Mission. REAKING with Geneva’s firms, We offer Nazis favoured terms; Tet us lend to back your claim - England’s honourable name. For dirty deals both great and small Our representative will call. ~ Orders carried out with speed, Satisfaction guaranteed. We obsequiously remain, Daladier and Chamberlain. —Sagittarius (in the New Statesman) SHORT JABS A Weekly Commentary By Cl’ Bill Robbery And Already it has been written A in this column that the police rson of this province are adepts at clubbing pickets, both on the streets and in the cells of their filthy lock-ups. We mention only the Post Office and Blubber Bay.. Catching criminals, however, is another matter. The theft and burning of Art Evans’ car at ‘Trail is a crime that, at this time of writing, has not been solved and if it is left to the provincial, Trail and Tadanac cops and defectives it never will be — at least, no one will ever be arrested and put on trial for robbery and arson in connection with it. : On the showing of the police themselves, Hyans’ jallopy was towed from Trail up the hill to Tada-— mnac and set on fire. it was found on a dump on the property of the Consolidated Minine and Smelt ing Company. The auto seen towing Evans’ car was a big blue high-powered machine which went up a hill in high with a tow behind it that good cars have to tale in medium or low,—just such a car as might belong to a smelter manager or other high-paid official of an anti-labor corporation determined there shall be no trade union telling it what wages they shall pay or what conditions shall obtain in their plant. This car with its tow had to pass through the gateway of the Consolidated Smelter plant, past police and watchmen, and though a police call was sent out pronto, no car of like description *was seen to emerge from Tadanac by the only two possible routes. If the poplice lool hard they will surely find it there yet. People who do their own thinking will judge for themselves whether the cops have any desire to make a pinch in this case, although their fellows at Blubber Bay showed great enthusiasm in arrest ing half the striking quarry workers there. International ov Bill's International Brigade Bri a is creating a great deal of in- rigace terest. Already a goodly num- ber of recruits have applied for membership, but there is room for many more. At the time of writ ing this it is too soon to know what the response will be from the logging and mining camps. Tf you are willing to help in a way that will bring you the greatest pleasure you ever had in your life, get into this brigade! You will not be expected to do anything out of your way, and the returns will be magnificent Write immediately to me at this office and find out all about it. ff you don’t act quickly you may regret it all your life. At a meeting recently in Lon- aes don, the fascist Mosley ‘was The British asked, “Do you believe in Britain for the British?’ “I do,” he replied. “And do you believe in India for the Indians?” persisted “the questioner. “That,” said Mosley, “is another mat- ter.’ And so are Ireland and Palestine and the West Imdies and other suppressed parts of the British Empire. Britain For The storming of St Stephen’s A New Phase Cathedral in Vienna na the attack on the Roman Catholic Cardinal Tnitzer last week-end is more than a straw in the wind to indicate the direction of the next Nazi onslaught on democracy. The Pope’s attitude to the fascist pregram is al- ready well known. On the rape of Austria he re- proved the bishops, one of whom was Cardinal Innjtzer, who advised the Austrian Catholics to submit themselves to the Nazi invaders. In the Ein- eyclical of March 4, 1937, he denounced the fascists in these words: “Whosoever takes the race, the peco- ple or the state and deifies it in idolatrous worship, changes and falsifies the order of things created and commanded by God, is far from the true faith.” An intensely real struggle is at present being waged between the Vatican and German and Italian fascism. The official néwspaper of the Vatican, Os- servatore Romano, is not banned, but as soon as copies of it appear on the newsstands in any part of Italy outside of what the fascists call a “ridicu- lous little bit of ground within the Roman Empire,” the Vatican, they are seized by Mussolini’s black shirts and destroyed. : = The Pope is a thorn in Hit- Hitler Would ler’s side. Mussolini in spite Expel the Pope of the Lateran Past and the agreement with the Catholic Action, must do the bidding of Hitler. For this reason he wrote in aBl Popolo ditalia after Hitler’s visit to Rome, ‘“The Pope has done ill to brandish the cross of Christ like a weapon against the swastika.” Among his personal attendants who are siven to talking it is asserted that every time he men-— tions the Pope he raves like a madman and ealls him “the old ’ They hear him declare that Hitler has good reasons for asking him no longer to provide for the expulsion of the Pope from italian soil that the college of Cardinals is already making plans again to move the Pope and the whole central apparatus of the Church to Avignon in France, which was the home of some of the Popes during “the Babylonian exile.” This, however, is to be only a temporary move until arrangements can be per- fected for transferring the entire apparatus to the United States. Wi «= Only one of. the Italian car- ill Mussolini dingls, Venturi, is a supporter Dare? of Mussolini. The others are attacking him for siding with the enemies of the Church. Their articles as well as the pronounce— ments of the Pope himself, provide the excuse for the suppression of Osservatere Romano, While consolidating the military gains made in Czechoslovakia by the kindly aid of his willing ally, Chamberlain, and during the preparations for the next chapter of military ageression, which may be launched against Rumania or Wrance or Denmark, Qa unecessary victory may be chalked up to the greater glory of Hitler and Aryan paganism by the reduction of an ideological barrier to Nazi dreams of world power through the destruction of the Vati- can State and the expulsion of the Pope from Italy. The Pope will be labelled a Bolshevik beeause of his friendliness to the Soviet representative while he was Papal Nuncio in Warsaw. Hitler’s personal vindictiveness will foHow Him as it followed Benes. Only Mussolini is in the way,—and he is a coward. Will he dare do Hitlers bidding?