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Britain by Mass Observation. Warning Brom the West Indies. Fontamara, 5ce Postage for out-of-town orders. M On the air: LABOR NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Presented by AL PARKIN Sponsored by the People’s Advocate in cooperation with Dr. R. Liewellyn Douglas Dr. Douglas TUESDAY and : FRIDAY 5:45 P.M. over _ CKMO Mac-Pap Bulletins By JEAN CAMERON Secretary, Friends of the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion HE arrival in Wancouver of Robert Turner and “Tatty” David on Wednesday brought the number of returned veterans from Spain to 104 to date. David was a first aid man be- fore he left Canada and in Spain assumed the title of prac- ticante, which means looking af ter the wounded at the front and preparing them for the base hos- pital. Turner comes from the coal town of Extension on Vancou- ver Island and the residents there are now laying plans for a big reception in his honor. e ESTEEN men are now on the unit list at the Mac-Pap offices and it’s going to tax all our resources to look after them. So we urge all our supporters not to relax their efforts. We realize there are many other demands which deserve atten- tion, but we supported these men while they were fighting and winning battles in Spain and we cannet let them down now when they are so depend- ent on our support Another appeal is going out in the mails this weekend and we expect the same generous re— sponse that has always been forthcoming. Very few of the men that returned are left in the eity, most of them having been sent out to project camps. in a few weeks only those who are receiving treatment will be left. °@ EN in the project camps are keeping up their good work. This week they sent us money as recorded below and Camps 5 and “104A sent in packages of tobacco and papers. There has been no news this week from many of the out-of town points. Canyon BC is act ive. however, forwarding a col- lection card with $3.50 attached. The dance held at Killarney on HMebruary 28 netted the fund $8.75. This was swelled by a do- mation from the Chinese Salva- tion fund. COsHNG EVENTS — - On March 31 three one-actplays are being staged at the Maple Hall, 47th and Fraser. The plays are good and are certainly worth going to see. Admission is 15 cents. Tomorrow (Saturday, March 18) the Mac-Pap committee is holding a luncheon at Spencer’s on the fourth floor. Make ar- rangements to attend this affair. DONATIONS Donations this week to the Mac-Pap fund was $134. Donors are: Bralorne Miners, $47; EKil- larmey Dance, $48.75; North Van- cover CP, $2.70; Hastings East GP, $2.35; Little Mountain CP, 50 cents; Lathers Union, Local 207, $1; Holmes Group, $2; Pro- ject Camp No. 19, $7.25; St. Giles Young People, $1.55; B. Lornie, $1.90: Wm. Hook, Canyon, BC. $3.50; Mike Rattmer, $1.15; R. C. Mason, $3; Mrs. Bell, Webster’s Gorners, $3:85; Mrs. Roy Luxe, 50 cents; Friend, $5; Hriend, $1; and Robert McAdam, $1. In Vancouver News Of The City In Brief Bakery and Confectionery Worl-— ers Union, Local 468, has taken up new offices in the Holden Building, 16 East Hastings Street. Their new address is 614 Holden Build- ing and their telephone number is TRinity 1013. The union formerly shared ofices with the Hotel and Restaurant Employees’ Union, Local 28, at 700 Dunsmuir Street. “The Refugee Question” will be discussed by Mrs. Norman Brown, Women’s International League for Peace and FEreedom, when she speaks at the sociai meeting of the Mothers’ Council on Tuesday, March 28 at 2 pm, in O’Brien Hall, 404 Homer Street. A fox fur was won by W. Burns, 3079 Broadway West, with ticket Wo. 140G and an electric table lamp was wou by Alee Prett, 4172 Mast Pender, with ticket No. 149T. The drawing was made at the auditorium last Friday and the proceeds were for the League for Peace and Democracy Boycott Committee. A community amateur evening will be held Sunday, April 2 at 8 pm in Clinton Hail, 2605 Bast Pender Street Persons wishing to participate may get further in- formation by calling at 2962 Ven- ables Street or call H. Bird at High. 2496R. J. R. McGrath, Pacific Mills Ltd., won the Webster’s distionary with ticket No. 5. A social in aid of the Woman’s Bulletin will be held at 2561 Cam- bridge Street on Saturday, April i at 8pm. A welcome awaits you. | PAGEANT OF YOUTH Gymnasts such as these will perzorm at the second annual Pageant of Youth on Saturday at 8:30 p.m. in Victory Auditorium, a feature of the Eighth Annual Young Communist League convention. Pro-Recs Issue Open Invitation To Tourney night, March 25, in the Pro-Rec Athletic Club, 804 West Pender St., Vancouver. Events contested will be the Mil- itary Press, the Snatch, and the Clean and Jerk, and every weight class will be represented. No entry fee will be charged the competi- tors, but as the championships are sancticned by the Amateur Athle— tic Union of Canada, BC Branch, every contestant must produce his amateur card. Weighing in will conclude by 7 pm, when the com- petition will get under way with Jerry Mathisen, chief “Pro-Rec” instructor, acting as senior referee. Gommencing at 2 o’elock the same afternoon, the Recreation Genters: will hold a novice competi- tion in the same Club, which will be open to “Pro-Rec’” members only. An open invitation was sent out this week by Vancouver’s Provincial Recreation Centers to all local young men interested in making a name for themselves in the manly sport of weight- lifting to compete in the Province’s Open Weightlifting Cham- pionships scheduled for Saturday, To afford prospective runners and walkers an extra few weeks’ training, Director Ian Bisenhardt has postponed the date of the an- nual ““Pro-Rec” Cross-Country Run through Stanley Park till the aft- ernoon of April 22. In the interim the Centers will hold two other an- nual competitions, the Pro-Rec Boxing and Wrestling Champion- ships, on March 31 and April i, 8 pm; in the Pro-Rec Athletic Club, and the All-Centers’ Gymnastic Championships, April 20, at 7:30 pm in the Vancouver Forum. Preparations have already begun for the Centers’ unique Mass Dis- play to be held in the Vancouver Forum on the night of April 21. The night of the Cross-Country Run will see Vancouver’s first an- nual Gymnastic Championships at the Denman Street Auditorium. Continued SEEKS RICH PRIZE And I would also say that there would be no difficulty, nor should there be any, if they believe their directors, in getting their approv- al of this kind of an agreement.’ Bis questioner then asked: “And the reason they would likely agree would be that, having re— gard to these economies, they could look forward to receiving a return on those shares indefinite- deze. “Pxactly,” replied Beatty. “They would regard their future as more secure.” His auestioner had good reason to add: “For a lifetime, if not longer?” @ T THE end of five years of such “economies” it is easy to forecast that one of two things would happen. Beatty and his St. James street colleagues would either want to cut adrift from any cooperation with the CNR after having destroyed it as a competi- tive transportation system .. . or they would perhaps take it over for a song from the govern- ment. But there is yet one important fact that Canadians should take full note of. On page 522 of the Senate Committee proceedings you can read a question asked of Beatty. It was, in part: “In your memorandum, Sir Edward, you spoke of the necessity of spend- ing money for remodelling, mod- ernizing and improving the ser— vice, and you indicated that that would be more easily obtained un- der unification than under the present set-up ...”’ HMighlights of the discussion that ensued are very enlighten- ing. Sir Edward answered: “I have in mind, if we built a new piece of railroad between us we would pay for it jointly...” Senator Meighen interposed: “Supposing that railway is really a feeder for the GER?’ To which Beatty replied: “It would not make any difference, we would botn get revenue.” e HEN Senator Meighen said: “Oh yes. That point has been in my mind for some time. It is true you both get your revenue; but that feeder adds to the perm- ament value of the Canadian Pa- cific. Each system has its capi- tal assets distinct?” Beatty answered: “But you will remember Senator Meighen, I am not contemplating unscrambling.” Meighen ejaculated: “Nor would i? Senator NicRae interposed the remark: “When you say ‘earn- ings,’ there are no earnings to the eovernment for the next five years, and in all probability the government would have to put up their srare of the money” (for new capital expenditures on new reads and services). e@ HE SCOPE and ramifications of this conspiracy are bigger than most people realize. It was conspired in the cloistered private offices and board rooms of power- ful, avaricious Men who see in it the biggest deal of the century, a scheme that will put millions into their pockets. It is up lo e-r7sry patriotic Canadian to Tight tins Sinister plot against Sur naticn and economic life. Let it succeed, and our raliway problem will be even worse thaa it is today. Canada would be at the merey of the biggest trans- portation monopoly in the worid_ Freight rates and passenger rates would be increased. Parliamens< would be a rubber stamp for the monopoly that would er:p onr country by the very throat. 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Phone, High. 83657 541 Bast Hastings St., Vancouver, B.C. xeJo Continued STALIN He put the question: = Call rt Home! “How could it happen that thef =z non-aggeressor countries with vast possibilities at their disposal have} and} their obligations so easliy, without abandoned their positions any resistance, in order to pleaset the ageressors?”’ ly responsible for the situation, he charged, England and Frence were main-- “through abandoning the* policy of collective security~”’ Stalin declared that their “con- hivance at aggression” was rap-— Idly extending existing conflicts in- to a universal world war. Ther hope, he said, was that Japan and Germany would become involved in a war with the Soviet Union. They would allow them “to weaken and exhaust one another and then ... appear on the scene with fresh forces . .. to dictate terms to the weakened belligerent nations.” The working class leader spoke of those who wishfully hoped for a march on the Soviet Ukraine. “The Germans have ‘disappoint- ed’ them cruelly,” he said. “Imstead of a march further to the east against the Soviet Union, they have turned to the west, if you please, and demanded colonies. “One might think that Czecho- Slovakia was ceded to Germany as a price for undertaking to launch a2 war on the Soviet Union, and now the Germans refuse to pay the note, telling their creditors to SO chase themselves.” Stalin summed up the interna- tional views of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in four points: “We stand for peace and for Strengthening business-like rela- tions with all neighboring coun- tries which have a common fron- tier with the Soviet Union. “We stand for support to nations which have fallen to aggression and are fighting for the idepend- ence of their countries. “We are not afraid of threats from the aggressors,” he empha- Sized, “and we are ready to re- taliate with two blows for one against the instigators of war who attempt to infringe upon the integrity of the Soviet bor- ders.”’ eT GE DONOVAN Typewriters CASH REGISTERS, All Makes ADDING MACHINES Terms if Desired 603 W. 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