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The Youth Congress consti- ‘tutes the movement of the future, declared Maurice ‘Rush, provincial secretary of

# Young Communist League, to

delegates at the ninth provin- ‘cial convention of the Com- munist party here last Sun- day.

Rush claimed that al] important youth organizations in Vancouver and New Westminster district were affiliated to the Youth Council movement embracing 19,000 mem- {bers. Its strength and popularity, / he said, was responsible for exten-

(sion of minimum wage laws to

“young people, granting of an addi- ‘tional $32,000 to maintain health and recreational centres, and re placement of old-style relief camps by forestry projects.

“BE youth are going places and doing things,’ Rush stated, outlin- ing activities of committees formed to investigate Vancouver housing conditions, active assistance in the bovcott campaign, and “the most spectacular Arts of Peace program

Staged in Vancouver Auditorium last fall.* Anti-Fascist Need One great lack, however, this

youth leader warned was “failure to crystallize an anti-fascist youth movement in the province,’”’ which, he urged, should be remedied as quickly as possibile.

Build and transform the Young Communist League was his propos- al “as a guarantee that a conscious movement of youth against fascism would be quickly formed.”

With pride he pointed out the West End branch of the YCL as an example for others to copy.

“This branch is no longer a meet- ing of ten or twelve earnest but in- effectual young people. It plays an important part in the community, and young men and women are be- finning to join up quite rapidly to take advantage of physical culture classes, study and discussion circles and other activities interesting to youth.” Rush referred also to Vic- toria Read sports club.

He appealed to convention dele- gates to go back and assist YCL maembers in tasks of duplicating the excellent work of these club.

“Where we young Communists have succeeded in organizing young people it has been done almost in- Variably with the assistance of ex-

} perienced members of the Commu- | nist party,” he asserted.

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- Consternation is expressed by locked-out Burns employees at a rumored announcement that Canada Packers’ recently

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will not hire workers over 35

Harry Douglas, business agent for local 95, Meat Packers,

stated to the PA that such a ru of Burns ex-employees for who

ling would exclude 80 per cent m Mayor G. C. Miller had se-

cured a promise from Canada Packers that a large percentage of them would be employed when needed.

It was learned that to date 22 men have been taken on, four of them Burns men who were re- quired to fill in a special form marked “Burns.” :

@f 2100 applicants, 152 have been promise@ a job=-“All must be ex- perienced, one applicant reported. The two young men who waited all night in the rain to be first appli- cants, as reported in the press, did mot get jobs.

Mayor Miller repeated the prom- |

ise given him by the management of this firm, when he repudiated, in City Council Tuesday, a rumor that 200 prairie families were on their way to Vancouver on the strength of jobs promised them by Canada Packers.

Trades and Labor Council was told last Tuesday by Harry Doug- las that he would be able to give a fuller report on the situation at next council meeting.

National Defence Resolution

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fates at the provincial convention of the Communist par Jast Saturday is that dealing with national defence.

icy Demanded

resolutions adopted by dele-

Cutting to the heart of the problem, the resolution begins:

“The failure hitherto of capital-6 ist democracies to curb the fascist aggressors by an unyielding policy of collective security and economic sanctions is directly responsible for the existence of an uncurbed military-fascist aggressor in the Far Fast and on the Pacific

“The first necessity to preserve Canadian soil from fascist attack is a complete change in Canadian foreign policy away from support to the British National govern- ment’s criminal foreign policy and in the direction of an independent policy along the lines pursued by the Roosevelt administration.”

The resolution calls on the CP membership to mobilize the people of BC to demand of the Pattullo government to declare openly for collective sanctions against Jap- anese military fascism, that im- ports and exports from Japan be immediately prohibited and that exports from BC of huge quan- tities of war material now being shipped to Japan, “the very enemy against whom the BC coast is being fortified,” be halted.

Timely, in view of vicious at- tacks on Oriental people generally, specifically this week by Captain MacGresor Mcintosh, MLA (is- lands), and published widely m the press, is the resolution headed “Orientals.”

Accusing BC employers of taking

advantage of the traditional lower standard of living and isolation of Oriental workers, to exploit them more intensively than white worl- ers, the while they foster race pre- judice, the convention resolved: — _ to combat all forms of in- tiimidation and discrimination against Oriental workers, middle class and professional people in BC.

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_ to break down race preju- dice, integrate them in the Cana- dian and international labor and progressive movement, procure for them the franchise on the basis of equality with other workers.”

Other resolutions adopted urged all support for the Japanese boy cott: freedom for Mooney and Billings, and for King, Ramsay and Gonner; condemned Japan’s inva- sion of Ghina; denounced the re- cent Duplessis-Hepburn alliance of reaction and particularly the in- famous Quebec padlock law; bailed the struggle of the Spanish people against the armies of fascist inter- vention.

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Branch of Independent Mutual Benefit Formed By Members of Loggers’ Union

A branch of the Independent Mutual Benefit Wederation was formed this week by members of International Woodworkers of Am- erica, G. Maynard, business man- ager, BC Lumber Worker, TWA. of- ficial organ, being elected president, W. -Arseneau, vice-president, Flor- ence Calder, secretary.

Oscar Morgan, national officer of the IMBE installed the charter in local 71, TWA headquarters, at a meeting held there for this purpose, five new members joining up.

Explaining the set-up of his or- ganization, Morgan stated there are 90 clubs throughout Canada with aggregate membership of around 2,800, of which 75 percent are trade unionists.

A member-controlled insurance organization, Morgan stated, the Federation has now over a million dollars in policies, and to date has paid $107,000 benefits with a ten- year record of not one default.

Company Unionism

Warning that lumber operators of BC are moving to set up com- pany unions, the BC Lumber Work- er, Official organ of the Interna- tional Woodworkers of America, states of information received that foremen and millworkers employed at Boundary Road Shingle Mill (Bloedell’s) were instructed to at- tend a meeting called by the man- agement for the purpose of setting up 2 company union.

Reports the BC Lumber Worker:

“Lack of sympathy for such kind of unionism was shown by the re- fusal of the men to attend the meeting.”

Youth Brief

Vancouver Trades and Labor Council vill send a representative to the mock commission to be held January 28 by Vancouver Youth Council, preparatory to compiling of a brief by the youth for pres- entation to the Rowell Commis- sion.

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Outlinine a broad aspect of the problem of unemployment in his contribution to discus- sion at the provincial conven- tion of the Communist party last week, R. Lealess, out- standing communist and.]ead- er of Vancouver unemployed, maintained that the winning of federal unemployment insurance should occupy the attention of both jobless and wage earners.

“Unemployment is still the grav- est problem facing our country to- day,” Iealess declared, quoting fig- ures to show there were 11,000 un- employed families in Vancouver in 1932; 8,000 in 1933; 7,000 in 1934;

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Stating that he did not consider it mecessary to outline causes of unemployment to the convention, Lealess claimed that it would be entirely wrong to reduce the ques- tion to methods of organizing the unemployed, or even to think that a federation composed of married, Single and other categories of job- less could furnish a solution.

“Unemployment is a social prob- lem and it is from this angle that a remedy can be found,” he stated.

Labor Must Aid

Repeating a statement made by John LL, Lewis, ClO leader, during the present “recession” in United States that “it is the right of every American workers to be guaranteed a job,” Lealess showed to the con- vention the need for making trade unions the champion not only of union members who lose their jobs, but also of masses of non-union unemployed.

Winning hard-pressed taxpayers to the campaign for federal unem- ployment insurance was stressed by this unemployed leader.

He urged that explanations be given these people to show how an insurance scheme would lighten their tax burden and help to over- come the present Situation of con- tinued cutting down of grants from dominion and provincial treasuries; that something could be shown by this method instead of adding to the 65 million dollars already ex- pended to little purpose.

Weed for revision of Vancouver’s taxation should be campaigned for, as was successfully done in Winni- pee and Toronto, declared Lealess. The latter city has a federated or- ganization established on the basis that unemployment affects the com- munity, he added.

Speaking on immediate possibili- ties of building a people’s front, Lealess claimed that it was on ques- tions of unemployment during the past five years that closest unity with the CCF was established, giv- ing as instances the On-to-Ottawa trek, unemployed councils and CCF Industrial and Economic confer- ences.

“We have been timid in the past

to raise unemployment and insur- ance as political issues,’ DLealess stated. “We should carry these

questions into our campaigns and in elections in order to rally the people and block reaction,” he con- cluded. .

MacPaps’ Names Appear On Fans

Among British Columbia vyolun- teers in the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion whose signatures appear on three fans received by the pro- vineial office of the Friends this week are: Tom McKenzie, Prince Rupert; Dick Swain, Cranbrook; Scotty Patterson. Nelson; C. W. Beasor, Nanaimo; Jim WBalderson, Vancouver; Ronnie Liversidge, Jim- my Diamond, Lawson and Clark- son.

The fans, received from Yorkie Burton, Vancouver volunteer, will be used to raise funds in the current campaign for a February shipment of comforts to the battalion. ~

A new group of the Friends, or- ganized recently at Dollarton, raised

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Soldiers of the Egyptian army at a recent review in Caire just prior to announcements that its size would be greatly increased. With Italy and England crossing radio swords in this part of the world so vital to the empire’s lifeline, Egypt is regarded by observers as an inflammable tinderbox in a world filled with

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causing the enemy heavy losses. Perhaps the sight of the people’s aireraft played an even greater role this day; it raised the morale of the infantry.

The encirclement of Teruel starts from different directions. They did not all fight with the same success; the best were the troops on the right Wing attacking from the north. They advanced five or six miles. From the centre they advanced about two or three miles. The eve- ning found the men from the south two miles from their starting point. Two villages were taken, in one some guns and 83 prisoners were taken.

Peasants Greet Victors

The peasants greeted the repub- licans with red flags and joyous cries. Cunning as Franco with his demagogie laws for the e‘protec- tion” of the small land-owner might be, the peasants are still more cun- ning: they cannot read—they are poor, backward peasants from one of Spain’s poorest provinces, they know who is their friend and who their enemy.

Teruel can be seen from the hill. The view here is breath-taking. Red rocks and a town with medieval, fortress-like buildings. Fleeing fas- cists can be seen from the brizade commander’s lookout.

I have in front of me one of the enemys leaflets. “The red baiters have sold you to France and Rus- sia.’ That is all. Franco is wasting paper. He should send it to Paris where the “pairiots’’ are writing that France has no better friend than Franco. ...

The People’s army has not only frown, it has matured. I am not referring to the technical side, but to the size, which will in the last resort be decisive, of the formation of the infantry.

The Spanish people were the most peaceful in BHurope. They knew nothing of the war and did not wish to know anything of it. The war was forced on them. At first they treated it as a bitter necessity. They conducted military operations with childish enthusiasm and lack of understanding, like a child who wants to do everything all at once and becomes discouraged at the first setback.

The same people have changed today. There are no longere any centurions who sit around the Al- cazar of Toledo. The soldiers have now understood that everything must be done well and with pride. “Brigade patriotism’ has given

place to the realization of the need for unity, to the desire for wictory. The equipment and provisioning of the troops have improved. All this opens up the possibility of success in the attack on Teruel.

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Edson Loggers Union Holds First Convention

EDSON, Alta, Jan. 20—(Special)—Attended by 40 dele- gates representing 450 of a total membership of 600, Edson’s first loggers’ canvention reported considerable gains, went on record for increased wages, reduction in compensation fees, adequate medical] facilities, hiring of experienced men for dangerous jobs, improved camp housing, and the 48-hour week.

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Greetings to the convention were sent by President Harold Pritchett of the International Woodworkers of America and President Livett of District 18, UMWA, Local progres- sive parties also pledged their

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