y TLC Political Action C ommittee
Host To Federal Candidates —

The Political Action Committee of Vancouver's Trades and Labor - Council v
host to the city’s federal candidates at a special meeting in the IOOF Hall this: week and |
a result organized labor has a clearer picture of the position occupied by the major part
toward labor’s legislative program. os

On one point—the candidates’
position on a questionnaire cir-
culated earlier by the PAC —

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number of questions, Trades| ized unless the CCF came -
Council delegates present had ob-| power. : :

the answers were fairly clear. ee the following general Harold Pritchétt, LPP cami
Four candidates, three of them ; ; : si, : 7 a
CCF’ers, definitely refused to|. @ That the Liberals, repres- cate for Vancouver ae a
commit themselves on the ‘six-| ented by Ian Mackenzie and Wim.|the clearest statement o orge,
point labor program calling for| Reid, were standing pat on a/| ized labor’s aims of all the spec :
amendments to PC 1003 and PC|program calling for prosecution | eps. E

ieee ; . es : _ | 9384, higher old age pensions,|of the war against Japan, veter- : : ge
When Local 128 of Oi] Workers Intl. Union (CIO) in Long holidawe pone pay, a -shorter| ans’ rehabilitation, improved so-| Four basie questions faced

_ Beach, Calif. hit on the idea of holding family night meetings | work day, arid national health in-| cial security measures, and a Cenadien ee both oe :
each month, they really started something. The wives’ not | surance. strong world organization. Wil- ee Price ae ae.
only drag their husbands out to the meetings but, as this The candidates .were Hon. | liam Reid, Liberal candidate for g, : <4

2 ; é : radi were a national income of #8
picture shows, they hold their own when they take the floor.| Ian Mackenzie, Liberal, Van- VEOUN SS eee ome billion dollars with maximum «<@#
ter; A. T. Alsbury, | 2 5 ee ES Ones : ae he :
Cer aang - resident ae however that one-man cars|Pports of 60 percent as high

Pp should not be permitted in Van-|during the war, maintenance

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Capacity Audience Hears | 22" 38 [2 ono a ee

/ Vancouver East; and E. A. @ That the Progressive- ee : 5 “|
: Sg Lucas, CGF, -Vaneouver South. Conservatives would try to use cropeties CREE: eal
= Their refusal to answer the | their fake 12-point labor pro- | | 71°85 =e Boe
fe Ez F ; ae) : ag | week, pensions of $50 montkly
é questionnaire was based on 2 gram, adopted at the 1942 60 years of age, higher woul
: technicality in the Hlections Winnipeg convention, to win s 2

PENDER ISLAND—Speaking before a capacity audi- Act, which is seldom, if ever, | labor votes. Their spokesman, |™"S | compensation, satlong
ence in this community where he formerly taught school,| enforced. Mr. Hubbard, tried, amid —. See = eee See
George Greenwell, Labor Progressive candidate in the Na- |’ One other point was drawn| [2ughter and jeers, to claim ent Heor under i p :
naimo riding, emphasized that the issue facing the P€OPic | forcibly to Council delegates’ at-| that the “new Tories” were not As to the kind of goverr
of Canada today is not the issue tention—that three of the major | "eSPonsible for the R. B. Ben- ment Canada wanted, Pritche:

See Se |\realize that we should have ra- : . e ies: w in f ipa ape : :
of socialism versus private en- eae ee : . _| Parties were not over-anxious to none eae as ae os aes | se es " ee eee only oa
derorice but -sathes the icsue af ther a coalition patterned after make an appearance before the; o the : HE ion eaves in WwW = :
‘ob : a evand prospe the order of Churchill, Roosevelt representatives of labor to state @ That the eG was cam- a 30r Dat Gee ;
jobs, homes, peae r T- 3 ; thei ae O f 16 candi-| Paigning for labor votes on the ion co steer e country

a : 5 e world| their positions. Out of candi- | P@lgning 4
ity in the postwar. and Stalin, which Save, ube -w ; dates invited, only seven ans-|ogey of mass unemployment along the road of BLosress ah4
A ae ; the perspectives of an enduring wered the invitation. Of the four} Which would follow the war. CCF | security. : £ eet
Demoeratie _coalition is the ith’ inereasi sell. being: - } Siok Grant MaeNed: Gre i axt aa:

oo ee foeca peace with increasing we ein’ | major parties, only two were rep- | £P0 esman Grant MacNeil, w nile “We've had enough of the P|
sui nuiaa) ST eSwsS Staved-! for the peoples of the world.” resented directly by candidates— eae concretely with labor’s ies, and labor wants to know w
“With labor a partner in govern- the Liberals and Labor-Progres- | legislative program, contradicted the Mackenzie Kin ee

5 Ty 2 aan Ss A : i ge Liber;
ment we can achieve an in-| Mr. Greenwell stressed the sives. The CCF sent Grant Mac-|his remarks by holding’ up ‘the | have failed to legislate.for treat

fact that a coalition of this type Neil

creased standard of living and |! their provincial. campaign | ™¢aningless and totally unreal | ynion rights,” he said. . “Lak
is Canada’s urgent need today. | g

broader social reforms, includ- manager, while the Progressive- | Perspective of a CCF government | wants a progressive governme
ing expanding health services “Qn the opposition benches! Conservatives were represented | after June 11. | et SHbGetaberchsprercd Eh

and fuller educational facilities. |we can only criticize,” he con-| by a “labor expert,” George Hub- In his opinion, nothing in pepeteel
r.

“We have had coalitions be-| eluded. “In the government la-|bard, who admitted he was| Jabor’s program could be real-

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fore—notably the disastrous co-| bor can help formulate policies “proud” he was not a Tory can- :
alition of Hirohito, Hitler and| that will-lead Canada forward to | didate.
Mussolini. From this experience| her rightful position among the After candidates present had WAND S TU DIG Us
we have learned a lesson, and/nations of the world.” - spoken. briefly and answered a I
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