Political demagogues and reactionary interests have | sought to divide Canada over I) the issue of Quebee and the irest of Canada. We have had f'the French Canadians libeled Win every possible manner, most f popular of course being to label hall French Ganadians as Zom- J} bies. This regardless of the fact that the beaches of Dieppe were strewn with French Cana- ndian dead; regardless of the (fact that Quebec has no mono- poly on so-celled Zombies that they are found in equal numbers, on a per capita basis, in every other province in Can- ada. Moreover; the Tresponsi- bility for the unwillingness of French Canadian to volunteer for general service liés not so much with themselves as with | The natural and inevitable fresult of French Ganadians be- (3 virtually forced into a posi- #cion of economic and social in- sferiority has resulted in the de- ivelopment of a feeling of re- sentment—a feeling which can only be removed by the deter- mination of organized labor and throughout the rest of Canada to raise Quebee standards to the levels of standards in proy- imces such as ours—and to ex- send to them the hand of friend- ;ship—not as a patronizing tok- mi gesture of support—but by Hanging themselves alongside the Erench-Canadians in the fight for national equality—— which means national unity. VEN the Royal Commission on the textile industry set ip by the Dominion Govern- ment in 1938 felt compelled to tondenm the Quebee wage situ- ition in forthright fashion. they cite two textile com- ganies in Quebec as having ‘particularly Wad records.” One %f these, controlled by a United states company is the largest “£ the broad silk mills. Records show that this particular com- 9any, which provided employ- nent for almost an entire town tmployees less than 12% cents jer hour. In a two week pay 9eri0d in February 1936 one juarter of all the female worl- In the other company ‘eferred to by the Royal Com- nission 42.1 percent of all the nale employees earned less han 12% cents per hour. Since hen, thanks to the determined ight of organized labor, wages lave slowly risen but conditions e still deplorable. In Mont- eal factory labor now re- ives a legal minimum of 17 lents per hour for a work week 1p to 60 hours for females. the Fellowship For a Christian social Order cites the Banque Sanadienne Nationale with 65 Wanches in Montreal which n 1942 paid tellers with 10 progressive - thinking people_ ; aT HERE has been a great deal of rot written about French + * Canada in the last few years—and still more loose thinking on the part of too many Canadians about our | French Canadian brothers and sisters. years’ service an average of $17.50 per week for a 50 to 60- hour week. Readers will recall a case in Montreal last year where a bank manager was ar- rested for. stealing several hun- dred dollars from his bank. At the trial it was brought out that his salary was $13.00 per week. No wonder he had -to Steal. French school teachers in 1937 were paid as low as $135 a year. Now their minimum is $400 a year. S$ EN 1942 according to the Gan- ada Year Book the minimum wage for a blacksmith in Van- couver was 85 cents an hour, in Montreal 55 cents. Vancou- ver painters were receiving 91 cents per hour while Montreal painters received 79 cents and considerabiy less outside Mont- real. All other trades and in- dustries bear about the same relationship between these two