By. JOHN BOYD

More than 500 people at-

Vat tended a concert Sunday after-

‘well noon this week in Pender

Auditorium sponsored by the

Youth Unemployment Com-

| mittee. I have been attending

| concert-meetings in this city

; for the past 25 years, and this

was one of the best. The con-

-cert was free, but as a neigh-

bor of mine said to me later,

“It was worth a dollar to see.”

The program was well or-

ganized and efficiently direct-

ed by chairman Jim MacFar-
lan.

The audience voted unani-
mously to send a telegram to
Premier Smallwood of New-
foundland protesting his at-
tempt to smash the IWA log-
fer’s strike and demanding res-
toration of democracy and
trade union rights in that prov-
ince.

Speakers at the concert-
meeting were Ozzie Lahti of
the Sissu Club, Finnish Organ-
ization of Canada; Bernie
Keely of the Marine Workers
Union; and Monica Samuelson,

provincial secretary of the
Socialist Youth League.

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concert draws 500

Lahti said that Canadian
government agencies m Eur-
ope induce workers to come to
Canada with promises that
loggers make as much as $60 a
day, that homes could be
bought for $3,000, and that
work is plentiful.

“The government fails to tell
them that many will have*to
dig their pork chops out of
garbage pails, line up for
sandwiches at charitable insti-
tutions, and bed down in box-
cars,” said Lahti.

Bernie Keely charged that
all across Canada provincial
governments are preparing to
bring down anti-labor legisla-
tion, aimed at hamstringing
the labor movement.

Monica Samuelson claimed

the government figure of 700,- °

000 seeking jobs is well below
the actual figure. :

“There are at least a million
jobless in Canada today,” she
said. “The greatest natural re-
source of any country is its
‘youth, yet we see thousands of
high schools graduates and
unable to find jobs.”

The concert part of the
meeting was particuarly good

-and the audience enjoyed

every moment of it.

Participating were the young
Chinese. Association, who per-
‘formed a Dance of Friendship;
the Russian Canadian youth
group; Finnish Canadian
youth; and Ukrainian Cana-
dian song and dance groups
from Vancouver and. New
Westminster. The Russian
Canadian women’s choir ren-
dered the finale, and like the
other groups, received hearty
applause for their splendid
performance.

A delegation of 10 young
people will go to Victoria this

‘Friday to present a brief on

unemployment to the govern-
ment.

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Some 600 angry,
Auditorium Jast Friday a
jobless. B.C. Federation

John Hines, Painters Union
business agent, said it is ap-
parent that Victoria and Ot-
tawa will not budge until pub-
lic pressure forces them to
carry out labor’s demands and
start a large public works pro-
gram and other measures to
alleviate the unemployment
crisis

After the meeting some 300
jobless workers braved a driv-
ing rain and ‘paraded to the

Placard parade of city jobless
presents demands to UIC brass

> : - . * D
desperate and destitute unemployed workers jammed into *
fternoon to demand action by government authorities to h

of Labor secretary Pat O’Neal addressed the meeting and ¢
that governments at all levels

of more than 85,000 unemployed in this province.

have shown. themselves quite

Unemployment Insurance of-
fices on Robson Street, where
a delegation led by their chair.
man, Roddy Doran, presented
their demands to G. F. Law-
son, National Employment Ser-
vice manager for Vancouver.

Demands cf. the delegation,
which Lawson promised to for-

ward to Ottawa immediately,
were

® All unemployed workers
to be covered by unemploy-

indifferent to the. vital

ment insurance until jobs a
found. ; fF
eS Unemployment ins!
benefits should be imme
increased. i

Some of the placards ¢4
in the demonstration read: 3

“No unemployed person sia®
suffer—Diefenbaker.” oa

“We can’t eat promises. —

“I followed John—my {0b
gone.” .
“Let’s trade with China 7
trade means jobs.” a

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