4 + FULL No. 202 POLICE Al PROTEST VOICED BY UNION _ Reports that trials of fifteen Blubber Bay strikers will be Srouped together for joint hearing brought indignant pro- tests from officials of the In- ternational Woodworkers of America this week. They feel that such “lumping” would seriously weaken the effect Oi defense evidence and if such a method is suggested, union officials will demand hearine of the trials as they are now scheduled or im- {ediate withdrawai of charges. The fracas at Blubber Bay was Started by “a conspiracy to pro- vVoke a riot,” — A. Lucas, union counsel told Judge Murphy in the Assize Court Thursday. Henry Coleburn, passenger on the Chelohsin, stated he heard special Constable Mattan say he mignot be in Biubber Bay “a day—maybe a year. This is a showdown.’ Trial of Ronald McDonald, Blub- ber Bay picket, continued yester- day when evidence for the defense from several oniocokers and Chi- mese strikers was heard. €. ©. Kean, a fisherman whose boat was tied to a boom near the Biubber Bay wharf, told the court that after the fight, he saw a man, presumably Gardiner, being chased on to the wharf by a crowd yelling “Get Gardiner.” -“The man escaped in a rowboat, but the gang lined up on the dock and pelted him with stones as he drew away,’ Kean added. Mrs. G Gibson, passenger on the Chelohsin, on her way to Powell River that eventful night, stated that passengers were amazed when they saw the police begin clubbing the strikers. “We said to each other, “What did they do that for, the boys hadn’t dene anything,” said Mrs. Gibson. Arrest of Cliff Melville, Biub- ber Bay picket, shortly after he had finished testifying for the de- (Continued on page 6) See PROTEST CALGARY ELECTS COMMUNIST CATIGARY, Alta. Nov. 24.—City £ Calgary had its first Communist Iderman following today’s civic lections, which swept Pat Lenihan, opular labor leader and provincial xecutive member of the Com- q4unist party, into a seat on the ity Council Be Lenihan was elected on a civic sform platform advocating tax re- ision favoring the small home- wner and a public works program 9 aid the city’s hard-pressed un- mployed. Known for years for his outstand- ie fight on behalf of labor, and a ader of many unemployed strug- les, the new alderman-elect is ex— emely popular with a large num- ar of Calgary people. : His election today was being reeted all over Canada, and he as receiving telegrams of con- catulations from many points. One of the first wires to reach m Came from Fergus McKean, ‘ovincial secretary of the BC Com- unist party and a personal friend. 1e wire read: “Our provincial committe ex- nds hearty congratulations on ur election as first Communist jerman in Calgary. Your election an inspiration to our BC party. st wishes for your future success chamipicning the interests of the igary people.” 2 robe Ordered VICTORIA, BC, Nov. 24—Fol- ving charges by Dr. Lyle Telford at steel for the Pattullo Bridge astruction, worth $140 a ton, had sn purchased at $190 and $200, ulting in overpayment of nearly (6,000, public accounts committee the Tvegislature has announced official enquiry into the matter be conducted immediately. the committee was ordered to ne from Alberta Dr. Telford's ssed infommant on the bridge ts, with instructions to subpoena man if necessary. Above are shown four of the Nanzimo women who Tuesday to protest asainst increasing Canadian w SSS SESS = paraded t. hrough ar shipments te Japan. = the Island city’s: business section Trades Council Leader Calls For Boycott on German Goods German, Italian or any fascist presents.” Introduced by the chairman, General Victor Qdtum, as “the re— presentative of the most potent force in the city,’ Jamieson was Speaking at the meeting arranged by the League of Nations Society and the Vancouver Ministerial As- sociation “because of the urgency of the refugee problem in Europe.” Stating that he “could not eveu hate the Germans,’ General Odlum remarked that it was not them, but “a wild beast let loose amone nations responsible for the terror- ism and persecution of the Jewish people today.’ A message from Mayor George ©. Miller was read to the meeting viewings “with horror and indigna- tion the persecution of the Jews in Germany” and approving any practical measure which will alle— viate their distress. : Mrs. WW. G. Rolston, Provincial Couneil of Women, brought a mes Sage of sympathy from the women Frenzied cheering and applause greeted E. A. and Labor Council, when he told an audience of é that “the only way to check Germany is through the pockets goods. Remember this when you are buying | bi Cass stated. “Phey will not bow of the province and urged that “our | sovernment unite with other demo- cracies as a real useful unit in our civilization.” Apologising for lapsing into ceolloguialism, Canon Wilberforce Cooper told the audience deci- Sively “ve must have no truek with totalitarian domination and miust resist it to the very last.” In an inspired speech, in which a note of anguish was detectabic, Rabbi Samuel Gass declared “there is Something greater than despotic brutality. It is the noise of indis- nation from a horrified world.’’ “The Jewish people are the very personification oz democracy,” Rab- their head to despotism, come what may. Tf democracy, freedous, pve treason, then we all are as uilty as they.” Three resolutions were passed unanimously, solemnly, by the as- sembly, expressing “horror at the Jamieson, president of the Vancouver Trades 2000 people in the Lyric Theatre last Sunday of her leaders. Refuse to buy your Christmas barbarous persecution of the Jews in Germany” and condemning de Secration of houses of worship and private property, extending heart-— felt sympathy to the Jews, desti- tute, homeless and in exile, and appealing to the Canadian govern- ment “to open the doors to an ap- preciable number of Jewish refu- gees to Canada.” While deplorins the persecution of the Jewish people, it was unfor- tunate that Archbishop Duke of the Roman Catholic Church used most of his speech to assail and eondemn Loyalist Spain. Dr. W. G. Blaci of the Teague of Wations Society, conecludings the meeting, declared that “we, as 4 people, want peace but not at any price It ais time to distinguish between war and dishonor The plight of the Jewish People in Ger— Many is not a matter of internal politics, it is a matter of concern Plan Picket Of German Consulate Stephen Appeals For Boycott Of Fascist Goods Vancouver citizens, shocked by persecution of Jews and CGCathoe- lics in Germany, will have an op- portunity to demonstrate their symmpathy with “vietims of the Wazi terror this Saturday, when the Vancouver City Committee of the Communist Party plans to picket the German consulate at 025 Seymour Street. Phil Gibbens, “energetic young city secretary of the Communist Party, told the Advocate Thurs- day that four pickets will be Placed outside the Yorkshire Building, housing the Gemmnan eonsulate, at 12:30 pm., and that a delegation wiil seek to inte:- view German Consul H. W. Mah- ler. Gibbens has already in- formed Mahler that a delesation will wait upon him to resister a formal protest to his sovern- ment. “On previous occasions when fascist consulates in Wancouver have been picketed to protest German and Italian invasion of Spain, police have sought to stifie citizens’ democratic right of pro- test by arresting pickets on tech-— mical charges of obstructing,” Gibbens stated. “We are determined to exercise this democratic right on Satur day and to give expression to the horror which all decent citizens feel at the barbaric persecution of Jews and Catholics in Ger- many. “The Canadian government has failed to express the true senti- ment of the Canadian people by protesting these outrages and we are seeking the support of all citizens in order that the Nazis may know the horror their atro- eities have evoked among the Canadian people.” An appeal to citizens not to Purchase goods made in fascist countries this Christmas was is- Sued by A. M.-Stephen, provin- cial president of the Ganadian Teague for Peace and Demo- cracy, this week Stephen also declared that the league’s boycott cecmmittee was Planning protest action to be italken on arrival in Vancouver of the first ship carrying Jap te the whole world.” oranges in Vancouver. Labor-Proe REFUNDING—_TAX REDI ressive STRIEUTION—_HOUSING NANAIMG, BC, Nov. 24.—At- tormey-General Gordon Wismer on Thursday refused a request made by Myer Franks, represent- ing Japanese interests, for “police concentration” to enable him to move scrap iron which Nanaimo citizens are determined shall not be shipped to Japan. George Les Strange, leading member of the citizens’ commit tee formed a weelx ago to picket the yvard where the seran is stored, received a wire from Colin Cameron, NILA, statins that Vis- mer had “definitely refused’? Eranks’ request for police as sistance. Four trucks, with Vancouver drivers, brought over on the noon boat Thursday were met by 2 hostile populace. Nanaimo truck drivers, who have refused to haul the scrap, immediately resistered a strong protest at the eity hall and provincial police refused to issue licenses to the Vancouver trucks. GQne hotel proprietor here has refused te put up the scab drivers while a garage has declined toe hovse their trucks. The picket line was still hold- ing firm Thursday afternoon. By HAL GRIFFIN NANAIMO, BC, Noy. 24. — The long smouldering resent- ment of British Columbians against increasing shipments of war materials to Japan flared into action in this Vancouver Island city last weekend when a citizens’ committee flung a picket line around the Adirim scrap iron yard at Five Acre Lots to prevent loading of 2000 tons of scrap destined for DR. A. F. BARTON CHARLES STEWART debt burden. A labor-progressive vote will be ine fund is short $72,000,000, the superannuation fund, $750,000. Var debt is more than $79,000,000. Only refunding and assumption of social service costs by senior governments can bring relief to Van- couver taxpayers, the labor-progressives state. Refunding of civic debt, redistribution of the tax burden*and a com- prehensive slum clearance and housing program—these are the three main planks of the labor-progressive platform designed to lift Van- couver from the slough of reaction and give it progressive govern- ment in the interests of the majority of citizens. 5 : : The 11-point labor-progressive platform points to the city’s financial plight and demands that bondholders relieve Vancouver of its crushing The figures quoted are impressive—and alarming. Sink- The a vote for the homeowners of Vancouver who today bear 90 percent of the mounting tax-burden. In MES. EFFIE JONES SAM SHEARER the last three years the mill rate has soared from 37.886 to 48.635. Instead, the tax-burden will be placed on those best able to pay—the big business interests of Vancouver w to pay. hose dividends prove their ability Other planks of the labor-progressive platform include a civic works project to transform False Creek F tion of the civic works department and abolition of the poll tax. lats into a public park, reorganiza— , election of the police commission The campaign, which was Jaunched on Monday, will swing into its Second week with meetings at Hastings Auditorium, Tuesday, Novem- ber 29 and Oddfellows’ Hall, 6th and Main, Thursday, Mayoralty candidate Dr. A. FE. speak at both meets. December J. Barton and other Candidates will Japan. (Continued on Page 6) See POLICE AD REBPUSED ROUSING FINISH TOPS CAMPAIGN British Golumbia’s Clarion-Advo- eate joint press drive Came to a rousing finish in Vancouver Wed Mesday night when several thou- Sand people packed the city’s two largest balirooms for the closing event of the campaign and boosted drive totals well over the $3400 point. Planned to mark the official end of the Campaign, thousands of tickets to the affair had been sold Widely. By 10 o'clock both the /im- bassy and Trianon balirooms were packed by devotees of swing. “Biggest thins we've ever staged here,’ stated William Ravenor, drive manager. ‘“The Success of the affair indicates the increasing sup- port swinging behind the labor- PLrOSsTressive press.” Total receipts from the drive reached over $3400 after Weednes— day, with several districts still to hear from, Ravenor pointed out. “It’s the most successful drive to date,” he Said, referring also to the fact that the money had come in faster than in other campaigns. PRIZE WINNERS. i. Wm. Tymkiw, Pioneer Mine, BC, D 1920. 2. E. Nelson, Taso, BC, A 1396. 3. S. Paskevielk, 5033 Ross St, WVanecuver, BG, EF 2739. 4. Nels Waale, Tatalrose, BC, A 4481. b= 2h Fp; MeLelian, Kelowna, BC, © 2940. 6. J. Mi. Meronyk, FDP 16, Parksville, BC, B 2653. 7. LL. Garland, 465 Eighth St, Five Acres, Nanaimo, B.C., € 3779. 8. E. Karn, 3635 Cambridge St., Vancouver, BC, A 2542. 9. R. Lawrynuck, 533 EB. Georgia St., Vancouver, BC, C 2828. 10. Victor Hopewood, 283 West 63rd Ave., Vancouver, BG, B 957. li. E. Casper, 122 EB. Hastings St, Vancouver, BC, B 25380. ; i2. M. Bidochka, 2042 Fast 49th Ave., Vancouver, BG, § 434. 13. Z,. Chaychak, 352 B. Pender St., Vancouver, BC, C 2673. Box 3877,