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people applied for. unemployment F

insurance benefits in Senter’

In Toronto

employment crisis growing across country

Across the country

In Montreal,

unemployment is rising,

war policies that restrict trade, distort the economy

huge sums or
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are out of work.
between 20,000 and 2
greater than last winter,

military projects. The other side of this policy
val of rent controls.

the direct result of governmental cold
to fit the Marshal] plan and squander
is seen in continued high living
In the “boom city” of Edmonton it is admitted that 3,000

more than 30,000 are unemployed. And in Vancouver, where

5,000 are jobless, the prospect is that the unemployment crisis will be even
when some 60,000 were

without work.

® One in every .10 of Vancouver's working population is
unemployed today. With 10,000 jobless drawing unemployment
insurance and 10,000 jobseekers facing starvation because their
unemployment benefits have run out, Vancouver's growing unem-
ployment problem has reached the crisis stage, demanding quick
action on a public works program.

@ Vancouver Labor Council (CCL) this week demanded
a government plan of public works this winter to create employ-
ment.

@ Vancouver Trades and Labor Council (TLC) will meet
with Canadian Legion officials to discuss a public pressure cam-
paign to get a works program underway.

© Civic Employees Union is demanding speed-up of the
much-lauded city works program, pointing out that at the present
time some outside workers are being laid off.

@ Threat of rent increases next month will aggravate the
problem of how to keep living for tens of thousands of pensioners,
unemployed and low-wage earners. Mayor Thompson has indi-
cated his indifference to their plight by refusing to attend an emer-
gency meeting on rents of the Federation of Canadion Mayors in
Toronto this weekend. (He expressed a desire, though, to ac-
cept an invitation to Canadian mayors to visit Australia. )

® Defense organizations of tenants are springing up and a
Tenants’ Protest Meeting will be held at 8 p.m., Friday, Nov-
ember 25, in Hastings Auditorium.

@ Vancouver city council has turned down a federal offer
of a direct relief grant to be administered by the city, according to
charges made by Elgin Ruddell, Civic Reform aldermanic can-
didate.

(See also stories on pages 2 and 7)

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