Page Six THE PEGPLE’S A DYVCCATE April 7, 1933: Labor Demands Absentee Vot | NAZI CULTURE IN CZECHO-SLOVAKIA | This house in Bratislavia was wrecked by a Nazi bomb during slovalkia—the fruits of the Munich pact. Germany's conquest of Czecho— Nazi’ Lumbermen’ Tour Canada See king Airbase Special to the Advocate TORONTO, Ont. — Labor and liberal groups in Eastern Canada were raising a demand this week for sovernment in- vestigation of a party of eleven Nazi “technicians” now touring Ontario and Quebec ostensibly pulpwood industry.” PICKET ALASKA SALMON PACKERS SEATTLE, Wash. — Refusal of cannery operators to sign agree— ments with Alaska fishermen for the 1939 season brought ultimatum from the Maritime Federation this week that picket lines will remain at Lake Union and will be estab- lished arourd any ship attempting to load cannery supplies. This decision was communicated to shipowners and salmon packers by Secretary A. E. Harding of the Federation as operators continued to stall on the issue of union con- tracts. HMarlier Harding had been noti- fied by two Alaska steamship lines that no cargo will be accepted for eanneries while picket limes are dispatched to halt shipment. The Alaska Steamship Company and the Alaska Transportation Gompany had so advised the Fed- eration following the action of the previous week in which pickets ap- peared on the Seattle waterfront but were later withdrawn from the docks when an investigation re- vealed that neither the SS Bara- noff nor the SS Tongass carried eargo for canneries. While pickets patrolled the pier, however, marine firemen and team- sters refused to go through the line. : “Picket lines will be maintained until agreements covering all unions are consummated,” Marding deciared. BOYCOTT JAPANESE GOODS CREDITORS’ SALE EASTER BARGAINS Wien’s Ladies’ Worsted Blouses Suits Were Ree. $19.50 $2.50 Sale Sale £2.95 £49 INTERNATIONAL CLOTHIERS 48 EAST HASTINGS ST. This Y ear Rennie’s Fa Have— TENDER FRESH BEAUTIFUL AND Wi. EDS TOSD R ENJOY YOUR GARDEN A FINE, SMOOTH LAWN Lie. to study “the functioning of the > The group is headed by one G. 1 W. Giesler, who said it was not his intention to make contracts for lumber and pulp for export to Ger- many. “We just intend to roam around Canada,” Giesler told the press. But observers here recalled a Similar Wazi mission in 1937 when a similar group of “technicians” posing as “lumbermen” attempted to purchase Anticosti Island in the St. Lawrence River. The only dif- ference was, that particular party claimed they were Dutch. They came some months after the German dirigible Hindenburg made a “surprise deviation” up the St. Lawrence. The visitors engaged in extensive aerial mapping of Anticosti Island and the shores of the St. Lawrence. They were frequently seen taking soundings of the waters surround- ing the island—presumably to lo- cate a suitable spot for a sub- marine base. Fach day they would send long eables in code to Germany. Meanwhile they were negotiating for the purchase of the island from the Belknap Corporation. iuater, when the story “broke’’— and produced a national sensation —Hon. R. B. Bennett exposed the fact that the visitors were not lum- ber experts but Nazi Germany’s most distinguished naval and mili- tary experts. They were forced to leave. Observers here believe an in- quiry into the antecedents of the present Nazi visitors might be similarly revealing. They also pose the question as to why Germany should be so in- terested in Canadian timber. The Wazis have just seized Czecho- slovalia, which has extensive for- ests and a big export lumber trade. They have also just concluded an economic agreement with Rumania, which has vast timber resources. Many people here directly charge that, having failed to get Anticosti and more recently an airbase on Teeland, they are now proceeding with their original plan to estab- lish a camouflaged military airbase right in Canada. es Specials: Fruit trees, 2 and 3 years old, some of them will flower this Spring. . - varieties of apples varieties of pears varieties of plums 50e EACH Rhododendrons, unnamed at Collection of flowering shrubs, for $2.50. These Prices Are Cash & Carry on Ot Oy 5O0c. 10 Layritz Nurseries ooo SS mous Seeds VEGETABLES FLOWER BEDS MASSES OF ROSES VANCOUVER © &< o< | | pire where seafarers do not have | » 0999 999994569090006900 6 Canada-US Stop Hitler Bloc Urged Prison Camps No Place To Unite, Says Communist Special te the Advocate VICTORIA, BC, April G@—An excellent review of events in Canada and Europe was given by Malcolm Bruce, educational director of the Communist Party, in the course of an address here recently. Touching upon the blackest tragedy of the day—the fascist triumph in Spain—he stated that a period of reaction would set in and the hardest fighters, the Communists and the left wing of the Liberals and Socialists would feel the brunt of the Franco dic- tatorship. With the relative position of fascism strengthened by Cham- berlain’s appeasement policy, the speaker expressed the opinion that even now the combined forces of the axis powers are not half as strong as the forces of united democracy. Because of this, he said, it is essential that a form of collective security be won to halt further aggression. Referring to the Canadian gov- ernment, Bruce expressed the opinion that the Canadian gov- ernment should line up with Roosevelt for a “Stop Hitler” bloc in the interests of demo- cracy. “We have our financial oligar- chy here as in Europe,’ Bruce stated, “and it is working just as ruthlessly. The new Leadership League is no more than an or- ganization of ultra-reactionary Big Business, bent on saddling Canada with a form of ‘National’ government which would lay the groundwork for fascism.* “George McCullagh, advocating the abolition of the provincial governments for economy’s sake, the curtailment of social services and public works, is working in the direction of fascist control.” To combat the growing menace of reaction, Bruce urged the rallying of all progressive forces behind which all anti-fascist and democratie forces could gather. ‘We've got to come together on ths one great issue—the fight against fascism or we'll find our-— selves forced to come together some day, but it will be behind the barbed wire of concentration camps,” he concluded. Prior to the address motion pictures of the Lincoln-Washing- ton and Mackenzie-Papineau bat-— talions in Spain were shown. iBU Demands Ejight- Hour Day For Seamen Officers elected this weelk to lead the Inland Boatmen’s Union are James Thompson, secretary, ©. WN. Coe, assistant secretary, and Pat. Driscoll, organizer, and an execu- tive board of 14 members. A eampaign has been launched for the institution of the eight-hour day among the licensed and un- licensed seamen on the BC coast. | The union has also adopted a pro- | gram to organize all seamen. Many seamen are at present | working shifts of 12 hours and more, and the union claims BC is the only place in the British Em- an eight-hour day guaranteed by law. All members of the federal and | provincial governments are beims | petitioned for their support of the | eight-hour day and at the same time approve subsidies being grant- 62 officer after four BC members had urged the extension of voting pri- vileges to loggers, fishermen, miners and seamen on the Coast Supporting the move were A. W. Weill, Somox-Alberni; Grant Mac- Weil, Vancouver Worth; ADEeus MacInnis, Vancouver East; and T. J O'Neill, Liberal member for Kamloops. They contended that abolition of absentee voting privi- leges would disfranchise several thousand people and that feeling was “running high” on the ques- tion. 5 Meanwhile workers in the basic industries out of Vancouver have taken the lead in endorsing reso— lutions condemning the absentee vote ban, copies of which have been sent to all BC federal mem- bers and to election officials con- cerned. In addition, a number of unions have announced a mass meeting on the question to be held in the Moose Hall, Friday, April 14, and to be addressed by Sam Guthrie, CCE-MLA for Cowichan-Newcastle, Colin Cam- eron, CCFE-MLA for Comox, Nigel Morgan, vice president of the ENternational Woodworkers of America, and a representative of the Trades and Labor Council. . Unions sponsoring the meeting include the Salmon Purse Seiners’ Union, Pacific Coast Fishermen’s Union, International Union of Mine, Mill and Smeiter Workers, Inland Boatmen’s Union and the TWA. Officials of these unions contend that removal of absentee voting privileges will actually disfranchise several thousand workers in basic industries, since a majority of them will likely be out of the city during a federal election. The issue was first raised in the House several weeks ago when CCF members succeeded in having the matter referred to the elections P ‘| committee for consideration. Since that time the Trades and Labor Council and a large number of unions have wired Ottawa press- ing for lifting of the ban. Popular Front Acting As ‘Brake’ On French Premier dustrialists of the Right, who are themselves prepared to capitulate to fascist aggression and see the decrees aS a means of breaking the unions and not of breaking Hitler. It true that the defensive power of the country, which de- pends on the masses of the people, would be disastrously weakened by is the imposition of anti-working class measures. it is true that any “hamstringing” of the powers of the people at such a time is weak- ening to the defense “on both fronts.” But it is also true that the French left movements still have the power to prevent the decrees being used in this sense; that there were signs recently that Daladier — pressed by the mili- tary high command which wants no weakening of the rear—is at jleast aware of the disastrous consequences that would follow if he were to obey the demands of the reactionaries, preferring betrayal on the foreign front to democracy on the home front In this sense, The Week declares, there is a certain parallel between the position in Brance and in Bri- tain, for in Britain too the cry for “conscription under Chamberlain” is being raised again precisely by the people whose pro-Nazi sym- pathies haye been no secret, and who are therefore equally suspect of desiring the peril on the foreign front in order to conduct a disas- trous push on the home front This, the struggle on the home front in both London and Paris and the struggle on the foreign front for and against real cooper- ation with the Russians, says The Week, is the vital feature of the present situation. Tt is upon the outcome of these two struggles that e entire fate of Europe depends. Continued LEAGUE In his opening meeting at the Toronto Maple Leaf Gardens sey- eral weeks ago, the “front man” shocked his audience by stating: “T will be a good jockey if you will be a good horse.” : Last weekend, addressing a meet— ing of the Canadian Corps Asso- ciation, the publisher referred to the people of Canada as pigs, then insulted one of the heroes of Can- adian aviation, A. Roy Brown, the man who brought down Baron yon Richtofen during the World War. “Tf you are going to clean up a2 pigsty, you must get in with the pigs,” he told his audience, then turned to insult Brown by snarl- ingly refusing to answer a question | conecernine those backing the League financially. LONDON, Eng.—Serious but not hopeless is the way The Week characterizes the French situation in its current issue. The authoritative news sheet says there is no question that a great part of the motive power for the special powers granted Daladier came from the heavy in-© CPR IN UNION BUSTING ROLE KAMLOOPS, BC, April 5—At- tempts of an 18man rock scaling erew to organize into the Mainten- ance of Way Employees Union and gain the eight-hour day were frus- trated by CPR officials this week who laid off the entire crew and then offered them a job at less money. Rather than accept the offer 16 of the men quit and only two took the company’s offer. For a ninehour day the men were paid 38 cents an hour and meals of poor quality and variety were supplied at a boarding car for which the men were docked 78 cents a day. Organizer Wichols of the Main- tenance of Way Employees haa Made many representations to Mr. Price, a local official, for a reduc- tion in the number of working hours to eight, but claiming he had no authority in the matter, Price informed Western Divisional Sup- erintendent Bailey of the men’s re- quests. The question was finally taken up with W. M. Neal, CPR head in Winnipeg, with the result the crew was laid off and then offered an- other job at 25 cents an hour. Patronize our Advertisers Workers Here Act |UECKIE PLANT To Support MP’s Franchise Fight Organized labor groups affected by the amendments te the Federal Election Act abolishing absentee voting prepared to intensify their demand for renewal of the absentee system this week as word came from Ottawa that a group of eastern parlia- mentary members were attempting to block extension of the legislation on the grounds of excessive cost. Definite action on the question, now before the elections committee, was laid over for consultation with the chief electoral 1 cies maa pba denis Spaniels eas sete TRIES TO BLOCK UNION DRIVE Weoodward’s Store | Employees Okeh A Int’ n’] Union : Intimidation of employees q © the J. Leckie Company, boo © and shoe manufacturers, wa aired in the Trades and Labo Council Tuesday night by i Charles Stewart, organizin, | committee chairman. ‘| Stewart informed Council thai workers in the plant have been warned if they attended a meeting it in the Labor Headquarters Wed | nesday night they would be dis : charged. i The sentiment for a reached a high point when 3 IG: GHEE Rae ee oer percent wage cut was put into ef | fect on March 27 as reported ini} the Advocate last week. Prior ts the wage cut some of the workers | were earning less than the city re lief allowances. } Arrangements were made with Charles Stewart to hold a meeting of the employees on Wednesday night, and circulars were distr buted to the employees on Tuesday evenings. The management learned of the move and several were called intg ~ the general manager’s office, and Warned that attendance at the 4 meeting meant the loss of their job. Employees also stated that Thomas Griffiths, a foreman acting on the instructions of the manager - went through the plant and warned union — @ number of others they would be discharged if they attended the meeting. Wage increases for sheet metal workers in Boeing Aircraft plant promised for April 1 turned out to be a wage cut of i0 percent delegate MacPherson of the Metal Trades Council informed delegates Metal workers had been in re ceipt of 70 cents an hour in this plant while other metal workers have been paid $1 an hour. Don Maxwell, reporting for the Retail Clerks Union, stated that returns as yet incomplete from a ballot conducted among the clerks in. Woodwards Store had shown an overwhelming majority in favor of the international union. He also reported on an assurance that the Army and Navy’s new department store would be union insofar as the meat counter was concerned. Institution of the eight-hour day — for BC seamen was contained in a resolution from the British Colum- bia Division of the Inland Boat men’s Union of the Pacific and en- dorsed by the council. The reso lution stated that British Columbia was the only place in the empire where seamen did not have the eight-hour day and many seamen working out of BC were putting in a 12-hour shift. Cancellation of all subsidies te shipowners who refuse to impie ment the eight-hour day was asked in the union’s resolution, copies of which were sent to the provincial and federal government. 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