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Nazis Survey Iceland
For Air, Naval Bases

REYKJAVIK, Iceland—Under cover of promoting a
) “barter” agreement with this country—one of the poorest
in the world—WNazi officials are now mapping the island and
». taking soundings of all fiords .-

A scientific expedition, presumably attached to the
| trade negotiations commission, is criss-crossing the island
with surveys and photographs.

The Nazis say they are studying recent manifestations
of the theory that the American and European continents
ence formed a solid block, then split apart, and are now
moving steadily away from each other. =f

Actually, the surveys would be useful for laying out
landings fields for German planes in war time.

A German warship has been engaged for months in
sounding operations. There has been an increase in Nazi
political influence on the island.

The “geologic theory” of the Nazi “scientists” about a
one-time solid block between Europe and America strangely
fits right into Hitler’s plans for ultimate domination of the
| European continents, forecast in the Nazi book, Our
_ America.

Certainly, the people of Canada and United States can-
not afford to take lightly the fact that the Nazis are now
planning an Iceland submarine and airplane base for an
attack on American shores.

VHINESE BLOOD
STAINS PROFITS
)F WAR EXPORTS

China War Could

City Hall
rlighlights
This Week

Be Stopped By

' Gasoline Embargo
=

_ “If only the shipment of
psoline to Japan were stopped,

qe BC Federation on UWnem-
Pployment’s request for the
Setting up of a joint committee
of appeal for relief recipients, to
comprise representatives of tax
payers and unemployed organ-
izations, was referred to Chair-
man HL. Corey of the Social
Services Committee for 3 special
report on the advisibility of the
plan. The proposal has the sup-
port of the majority of those af-
fected, and would assist greatly
in ironing out difficulties be
tween recipients and officials of
the sGeial service department.
e

FL LOOKS as though aldermen

have given up any ideas they
might haye held for reconstruc-
tion of the outmoded Granville
Street bridge, even though the
span is not paid for. The reason
lies in the presentation of a plan
this week for a new bridge to
cost $4,000,000, a high level struc-
ture slightly west of the present
structure and to extend roughly
from Drake — street to Fifth
avenue.

Feature of the proposal, which
will be studied by the Board of
Works, is that the upper deck
of the bridge could be built for
$3,000,000 and a lower deck added
at a later date. The new bridge
would eliminate the present swing
span. =

HERE were the usual hostili-

ties in Civic Licenses CGom-
mittee again on the issue of
Oriental licenses, with Ald. YWil-
son demanding restrictions and
Ald. Bennett and Ald. Gutteridge
urging avoidance of any legal
entanglements which might arise
The

© War against China would
yd,” declared Dr. F. GC. Hsu,
-ofessor at the University of
fqaanghai, in an address to
embers of the Vancouver
inwanis Club last weekend.

The doctor made it quite clear
fiat the shipments of war ma-
s-ials meant to China by stating
t scrap iron was worth $8 4 ton
Japan and when made into
mbs had the power of Killing
2d maiming some i10,G00 Chinese
} the densely populated cities.
‘After freight charges of $7.20 per
a are deducted, the shipper of
®> serap iron is left with a net
in of 80 cents and for this pal-
> sum these exporters had thrown
§ de all moral scruples.

> Every dividend check for scrap
"np, gasoline, nickel, copper and
ton which the exporters receive
m Japan is stained with the
od of innocent Chinese people,”
= said.

' The Chinese doctor and lecturer
}.d it was an anomalous situation
1ere the Canadian people are
erwhelmingsly in sympathy with
)= Chinese people in their strug-
}= for life and liberty, yet business
}en are supplying Japan with the
2ews of war.

Should China lose in this strug-
4:, the speaker declared, Canadian
dad American business interests
= od to lose their trade through
+> Japanese closed door policy,

= z be |
pule a free China would re-esta AS AU HeSult of SectsRcuGne:

Boe eee freee pores ee three licenses under discussion
i = : 2

Suntry would have to start im- were granted. .

i-diately after the end of the war

: = = ay a= PPLICATION of the Interna-
3 =. building program.

{ Serene oe ee BEDS tional Union of OQperating

Somparing the war situation
th that of the earthquake which
cked Japan in 1923, Dr. Hsu told
S audience that the United States
ad at that time contributed $150,-
3,000 te aid in the work of re

Hngineers for prohibiting base—
iment suites aS a menace to
health was under consideration.
aldermen finally asking the union
to submit a list of such premises

Dbilitation and rebuilding, but| Having unsanitary conditions.
th all the continuous work of the | The union's request had also
od Cross and other organizations, | been backed by the Trades and
ere has been barely one percent | Labor Council.

that amount contributed for : ~
e velief of Chinese refugees, EARS that a monopoly on
acse munibers run into tens of milk prices would result
ousands. from establishment of the new
Credit was given the Vancouver Milk Board were voiced by rep-
nabarge Council by the doctor and resentatives of the New Era

efforts to arouse the people League before Social Services
| a sense of responsibility and Committee. The organizations
mand of the Canadian govern- asked an amendment to the city

charter siving City Council con-
trol over production and distribu-
tion of milk in Vancouver.

ant the placingeypf an embargo
all shipments of war materials
. Japan. :

~ommunist Stand On
-hemberlain Vindicated

_ All the hypocrisy of Prime Minister Chamberlain’s pro-
puncements following the seizure of Czechoslovakia by Nazi
‘ermany were unfolded by Malcolm Bruce, Communist Party
zecutive member, to a large audience in the Empress Theatre,
inday night on the occasion of®counted the early history of the
© 68th anniversary of the Paris | formation of the Communist Party
‘mmune in 1871. of Canada in 1922 and the role at
Analysing Chamberlain’s speech | has played in giving leadership to
Birmingham last week and re-| the working people.

nding his adie ace of the party's The Leadership League with
piement BEA ead ollowine: George McCullagh of the Globe and
Sch becr Be veteran party. Wail was branded by McKean as 3
ider stated the role of the Na- fascist setup
nal government sinc 1 had iz 3 :

eZ See = The appeal to youth, the urging

€n a traitorous one and recent : =
ents had proved it. of lowered taxation to allow indus-
Drawing a parallel between the| try to give everyone a job and ES
2ris Commune to the affairs in| Cry of “overgoverned together
Jain and the Wazi drive, Bruce] With demazgogic phrases _were the
2 same methods uséd by Hitler prior

ated the same traitorous forces : Z 5
‘© at work in Europe that be-| to his seizure of power in Germany
in 1933, McKean stated.

ayed the first workers’ govern- :
As opposed to the WDLeadership

ent and executed 30,000 men, i
League, the party secretary said

Smien and children. : t
Pergeus McKean, Communist | he welcomed Hon. W. D. Herridge’s
“Wew Democracy’ movement.

atty provincial secretary, re-

BC'S EMBARGO
PETITION DRIVE
GAINS STRENGTH

25,000 Sign Lists
In Vancouver Alone;

All Points Active

Another 3000 signatures
were added Saturday to the
growing list of people desirous
of the Canadian government
clamping an embargo on all
war materials being shipped to
agsressor nations, Mrs. James
Gray, president of the WVan-
couver Embargo Council told
the Advocate Wednesday.

The number of signatures ob-
tained in the city has now reached
29,000. No estimate of the number
of signatures obtained from out-
side points have as yet been tabu-
lated, although they are expected
to be quite high since whole com-
munities have signed the petition.

The Victoria Embargo Council
has asked for 500 more petition lists
to cover the Lower Island com-
munities and those parts of the
city not yet canvassed. Since this

Council was established a few
weeks ago it has met with the
Same enthusiastic response from
the general public as other
branches jin BC.

Mrs. Gray stated there -were
branches of the Gouncil in

ielowna, Kamloops, Salmon Arm,
Penticton and Vernon, besides the
ones in New Westminster and WVic-
toria and other up-Island points
which have advanced the demand
for an embargo.

“The church organizations and
ministers haye been doins splendid
work for the embargo, not only in
Vancouver but throughout the
country, although very little is re-
ported,” Mrs. Gray stated.

At present the Vancouver Em-
bargo Council is preparing for the
Pacific Northwest conference to
be held on April 22 and 23 which
is expected to attract delegates
from ail over BC and possibly from
as far south as California.

Plans are being made to haye
Miss Iroh Tsei, the Chinese “Joan
of Are’ address the sessions when
She arrives here to keep several
speaking engagements.

QUEBEC, March 23.—This provyv-
ince receded further back towards
the middie ages by deciding that
ehildren under 16 years cannot at
tend any moving picture theaters

in the province.

| BACKS FDR |

Former Secretary of State Henry
EE. Stimson, who has endorsed
President Roosevelt's foreign
policy of collective action against
the aggressors and has taken a
stand with progressive forces in
the nation.

ASK PROBE OF
NAZI ACTIVITY

A five-point resolution
ing the Federal government to
initiate an investigation of Nazi
activities in Canada was endorsed
by the Vancouver Junior Board
of Trade at its meetings this week.

The resolution was in line with
a similar demand voiced by junior
members of the Saskatoon Board
of Trade several weeks ago.

in addition to the investigation,
the resolution asks that copies of
all newspapers and periodicals
published in Canada in the Ger—
man language be submitted te the
state department: that consular
representatives submit copies of
Speeches to be made in a foreign
language to the state department:
an investigation of all German
language schools; an intensive edu-
cational campaign to acquaint the
public wtih pro-Nazi activities.

Consideration of the status of
persons of German birth who
have been naturalized is also
asked, in view of the Nazi policy
of including all Germans under
extra-territorial control.

The Saskatoon group had ori-
finally raised the question as a re-
sult of complaints received over
anti-democratie statements appear-
ing in the Wazi-controlled Deutsche
Zeitung.

request—

Toronto T rades Council
Blasts McCullagh League

MORE UNIONS
BACK MAC-PAP
TAG DAY PLANS

Trades Council
Elects Delegates
To Youth Congress

Eight more local unions have
rallied to the support of the
Trades and Labor Council and
the appeal of the Friends of
the Mackenzie-Papineau Bat-
talion asking City Council to
reverse its stand and srant the
veterans who fought in Spain
a tag day.

The unions, which are among the
largest and most influential in the
Council, are: Street Railwaymen,
Division 101; Hotel and Restaur-—
ant Employees, Local 28; Bakery
and Confectionery Workers, Local

468; Civic Employees, Local 28:
Salmon Purse Seiners, Local 141:
Engineers, Local 882; Painters,

Paperhangers and Decorators, Lo-
eal 1388; and Bricklayers and Mas-
ons, Local 1.

Local unions asked City Council
for a tag day after hearing Lieut.
William Kardash speak to dele-
gates on HMebruary 21.

Perey Bengough, Trades Council
secretary, again asked that unions
which have not already endorsed
the central labor body’s actions be
urged to do so.

Delegates W. Stewart and B. G.
Bankin were appointed as the
youngest members of the Council
to attend the Provincial Youth Con-
gress on April 7.

A resolution from the BE Old Age
Pensioners’ Association asking that
pensions be increased from $20 to
$30 per month and the age be re-
duced from 70 to 60 had the coun-
ecil’s endorsement.

P. C. Munro, in reporting for the

Boyeott Committee, said that
speakers to explain why fascist
goods should be boycotted were

available to canvass the unions.
He also submitted a draft constitu-
tion outlining the committee’s pur-
pose which was referred to the
executive.

A letter from the Department of
Fisheries was read by P. R. Ben-
gough which after explaining how
the Department of Marine was sep-
arate from the Fisheries Depart—
ment, failed to make mention of
the Council’s resolution asking fish
traps be banned.

@Qne minute’s silent tribute was
observed for Delegate Arbuckle
who died last week.

Nanaimo Water Loan
Gkeh’d By Victoria

Special to the Advocate
TORONTO, Ont.—The Toronto Trades and Labor Council,
representing some 45,000 trade unionists, has
demned the propaganda handed out by Publisher George Mc-
Cullagh and his Leadership League for the dissolution of elective

SENATORS RAP
CFL PHONEYS

OTTAWA, Ont—The Canadian
Federation of Labor was set up
and financed for the purpose of
clamoring for railway unification,
Senator James Murdoch told the
Senate Committee investigating.

“The organization was founded
on a shoestring and paid money
by those in favor of railroad
amalgamation,” the senator de
clared, opposing an application by.
Allan Meikle, official of the fed-
eration, to testify.

Senator Murdoch charged that
the main purpose of the federation
was to “raise hell.”

With Liberal senators not eager
to hear Meikle, Conservative Lead-
er Meighen insisted that they be
heard, which was finally agreed to.

J. T. Sutherland, chief of the
labor intelligence branch, Depart-
ment of Labor, reporting on the
status of the phoney union, pointed
out that no figures had been re-
turned by the federation on mem-
bership this year. Last year, he
Said, it had claimed a membership
of over 50,000, though actual re-
turns from the locals had “shown
the organization to have a mem-
bership not more than 8000. Many
of the locals were “dead,” he said.

Gov’t Files Appeal
On Gas Ruline

VICTORIA, Mareh 23.—Provin-
cial government filed its appeal
with the appeal court Wednesday
from the decision of Mr. Justice
A. M. Manson declaring price-fix—
ing clauses of the Coal and Petro-
leum Products Control Board Act
ultra vires.

Cited

are several
trial judge

in the appeal
points wherein the
erred in accepting evidence and
ruled out evidence which should
have been accepted. Both the gov-
ernment and the oil interests in-
dicated their intentions of taking
the case to the Privy Council if

mecessary.

@municipal and provincial legisla-|
tive bodies. |
By an almost unanimous vote,

strongly con-

delegates to the last regular meet-
ing of the Council approved a reso-
lution which exposed the aims of
the League and warned the pub-
lic of the “grave dangers to the
very existence of democracy in-
herent in such propaganda.” The
meeting instructed the executive
board to make labor's position
clear on the League through radio
broadcasts and any other facilities
it may deem advisable.

“I say to you that we, the peo-
ple of this Dominion, are not re-
sponsible for the intolerable con-
ditions pertaining today,” declared
Secretary John Buckley in present-
ing the resolution on behalf of the
executive board. “While they are
talking of a reduction of govern-
ment T have heard nothing on the
reduction of the national debt
from which they draw big interest. |

“In this day of dictatorship they |
have no right to talk of reducing
governments.”

MecCullagh’s “Dictator League”
is Opposed to every measure that
would create employment and put
Canada back on the road to re-
covery, charged Richard Steel, of
the Steel Worlcers’ Organizing
Committee.

“The League demagogically says
that poeple can’t pay more taxes,”
he said. “But when they want to
apply business men’s principles to
Fovernment, let us not forget that
business made over $600,000,000 in
profits.”

Fred Collins, general organizer
for the Upholsterers’ Union, urged
labor “in the interest of organiza-—
tion, the right to organize, the
Maintenance of democratic right,”
to vote to oppose the League if it
wished to remain a body of organ-
ized workers.

Veterans Address
Lansley Miceting

NANAIMO, BC, Mar. 21—City
Council was advised in aletter
from the Deputy Minister of Fin-
ance that the $200,000 is available
to complete the waterworks sys-
tem. The money was borrowed
under the Municipal Improvement
Assistance Act. :

The city unemployed will. be put
to work on the pipe line as soon
as the material has arrived. Mayor
VY. B. Harrison and City Clerk H.
Hackwood were authorized by the
City Council to place the contract
for the pipes.

Musicians’ Jamboree

NEW WESTMINSTER, March
23.—Ten bands will be in attend-
ance at the Arena, Queen’s Park,
on Wednesday, April 12, when New
Westminster musicians hold their
jamboree and dance. There will be
a variety of dance numbers such as
old time, modern, sweet and swing.

NO RETREAT

US Secretary of Commerce Harry
L. Hopkins, who recently ridi-
euled reports that the Roosevelt
administration is seeking to ap-
pease big business and said, “if
don’t see any signs of retreating
from the far-reaching reforms to
promote a permanent recovery.”

DEADLOCK ON
CIVIC BUDGET

Attempts
Committee

by the Civic Pinance
to overcome a deficit
of $546,147 in the $14,000,000 bud-
get for the city of Vancouver end-
ed in turmoil Wednesday as alder-
men split in voting on three sep-
arate sehemes put forward.

Threats by Ald. Cornett to re-
sign the finance committee chair
manship featured the morning
meeting after Council members
voted four to four on his proposal
to increase taxes by one mill, re-
duce tax rebates by two percent
and boost water charges by 10
percent. :

The alderman also expressed the
opinion he could cut down relief
costs by $90,000 as a means of
making up the budget deficit.

Ald. John Bennett, after voting
against Cornett, presented a coun_
ter proposal to increase taxes by:
-95 mills, reduce water rebates by
10 percent, and utilize $200,000 in
tax arrears to meet current costs.
This proposal was defeated, with
Aldermen Corey, Crone and Gut-
teridge in opposition.

“You'll have to get a new fi-
Nance head next week,” cried Ald.
Cornett as he banged out of the
committee i1§>0m.

Council members decided to call
a special meeting for Friday to
vote on the alternatives. It is ex—
pected that Mayor Telford will be
present.

Royal City Facing
Further Budget Cuts

NEW WESTMINSTER, March
23.—Further severe cuts in depart-
ment estimates will have to be
made before the gap between ex-
penditures and revenue can be
bridged, the City Council learned
Monday night. The estimated ex—
penditure stands at present $230,-
Q00 over estimated income.

Civie employees wage increases
account for $15,000 while school
estimates are up $13,000 mainly
due to teachers salary increases.

Tenders will be called for collec-
tion of garbage on ae five-year
basis. The cost last year when
done by the civic board of works

was oyer $22,500.

cate is goings to have
hundred new readers.

Drive

FORT LANGLEY, BC, March 22. |

—Two members of the Mac-Paps
who fought in Spain, Stanley Nor-
man and Thomas Aucoin were
speakers at a small social eve-
ning and dance in the home of Mr.
A Back here last Saturday at
which $5.15 was raised for the re—

habilitation fund. Some 34 peovie

attended.

Were Away!

Five weeks from now the People’s Advo-

$2800 and several

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news and its leadership of British Colum-
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