Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy,
415 Manning Chambers,
Toronto, April 18th, 1938.
FIRST THINGS FIRST
In an emergency bulletin, sent out a few days ago, we announced that
Canada is falling behind in its pledged promises of aid to the Spanish people.
While the need for orphanage accomodation has more than doubled, payments due
for the upkeep of the present occupants of the two Canadian homes have not been
met.
During March, $500 was sent to Spain from this office. Much more
should have been sent. PLEASE DO YOUR PART TOWARD IMMEDIATE TAKING UP
OF THE DEFICIENCY.
With every foot of ground seized by the rebels, more and more refugees
pour into the diminished Loyalist areas. This means a growing shortage of
food; more wounded in need of hospitalization; more destitute and parentless
children to be cared for, and additional need in every direction.
INTENSIFY EVERY REPORT TO SECURE FUNDS TO MEET
THESE NEEDS. SEE THAT YOUR COLLECTION BOXES
ARE PROMINENTLY PLACE AND INSPECTED REGULARLY.
HOW “NON-INTERVENTION” WORKS
A summary of recent information cabled by trustworthy correspondents
of various United states newspapers, shows that, in recent weeks, 30,000
German troops, with specially trained officers, had left for Spain; that
another 30,000 who attended the "demonstrations" in Austria had continued
on into Italy and thence would be shipped to Spain to give further help
to the rebels; that Franco now has more than 600 planes, "a majority of
them modern two-engined German and Italian bombers,“ and that prominent
German aviation officers are in charge of the slaughter from the air of
Spanish women and babes.
A FEATURE OF HITLER'S "STRATEGY" IS THE DESTRUCTION OF ALL
WHEELED VEHICLES BELONGING TO LOYALISTS IN THE ZONE OF GERMAN
OPERATIONS. THIS MEANS, OF COURSE, AMBULANCES AND THEIR CAR-
GOES OF WOUNDED LOYALISTS.
In pleasant contrast is the news from Paris, that the French Govern-
ment is helping to evacuate the international sounded from the hospitals of
Madrid. Ships have been chartered and equipped for the purpose, and temporary hospitalization will be provided in France. Canadian sympathisers can only
regret that Spain‘s appeal to other democratic governments to assist in this
work will go unheeded here.
BLOOD TRANSFUSION UNIT STILL ACTIVE
Allan May, former Toronto newspaper man and our representative at the
Blood Transfusion Institute in Madrid, who has just returned to the latter
xity from the Guadalajara front, reports the carrying out of more than 100
blood transfusions in eight days, coincidentally with the setting up of seven
new Loyalist front line posts during the offensive. In addition, as many as
forty blood extractions were made in a single day, donors coming from a radius
of fifty miles to donate their blood in response to radio and newspaper appeals.

Declaring that enormous sacrifices on behalf of world democracy are
cheerfully being made in Spain, Allan urges that they be met with practical
gratitude and generous giving by the people of Democratic Canada.

TO ALL TRADE-UNIONS:
On Sunday, April 10, a convention of Labor, cultural and fraternal
organizations was held in Toronto to decide the best means of combatting the
spread of Fascism in this country.
IT IS THE TRADE UNIONS OF SPAIN - NOT ANARCHISTS, SYNDICALISTS,
COMMUNISTS OR OTHER POLITICAL AFFILIATE5 - WHO ARE LEADING SPAIN’S
WAR FOR THE SURVIVAL OF DEMOCRACY AND LIBERTY. IT WAS THE TRADE
UNIONS OF SPAIN WHICH PROVIDED AN INARTICULATE PEOPLE WITH A VOICE