| Housing Continued

posal of the contractors is hased
on building a maximum number
of houses, for sale only, that
they feel the speculative market
will absorb. The solution lies in
the setting up of a iocal housing
authority, along the lines of a
publicly owned utility, such as
the Vancouver Water Board,
which will be run on a non-pro-
fit basis and which will finance
itself through the issuance of
bonds at low interest rates, back-
ed by provincial-federal guaran-
tees.”’

PRICE CEILINGS

In a move to halt the infla-
tionary spiral in real estate
prices, the city committee of the
Labor-Progressive Party issued
a statement demanding that
price ceilings be fixed at 1941
levels. Stating that the public
long ago accepted the principle
of price ceilings, the statement
said: “It must be extended to the
field. of housing before more
servicemen and civilians are vic-
timized.  __

“The Labor-Progressive Party
welcomes all measures which will-
facilitate the implementation of
a housing program,’ ’the state-
ment continued. “The govern-
ment must demand from the
building industry a compulsory
declaration of supplies as part of
the assurance that no further
discrimination will be permitted
against the individual home

“Only a low-rental program,
based on one-fifth of the in-
come and subsidized by ‘the
federal government will gua-
rantee decent homes for the
majority of Vancouver’s ciii-
zens. The ‘do nothing’ poli-
cies of Mayor Cornett, Alder-
man Buscombe and others of
the council form the major
obstacles to the implementa-
tion of such a program” the
statement concluded.

A. W. Cowley, executive secre-
tary of the Citizens’ Rehabilita-
tion Council, met with the city
council to push for putting into
motion housing measures besed
on proposals advanced by the
Ottawa government as a result
of recent conferences held with

that there must be a solution. It
follows that for Vancouver’s
housing problem there must also
be a solution. As a result of dis-
cussion with the city council, the
decision has been reached to ask
Mayor Cornett to take part in
the housing conference which
will take place on my return to
Ottawa.”

RETURNING

EXSERVICEMEN

Cowley expressed confidence
that the housing situation ean
at least be eased by the present
proposals of the government. He
stated that it is willing to pro-
vide the necessary finance for
the building and servicing of
homes with sewers, water and
roads. The only problem remain-
ing to be solved then Was man-
power.

In the face of the acute hous-
ing situation, the press announ-
ced daily the return of hundreds
of servicemen to Vancouver from
the battlefronts. The realization
that more and more servicemen
wil return to this city has had no
apparent effect on the council,
whose penny-pinching attitude
persists as the prime considera-

tion in any measures designed to
alleviate the housing situation.

Vancouver is fast becoming the
focal point of the extreme hous-
ing situation that exists through-
‘out the nation. While in other
cities measures have been ef-
fected to attempt to cope with
the situation, Vancouver can
boast nothing but a record of
complete inactivity. Schemes
have been advanced by the con-
tractors, but the past has demon-
strated that the contractors are
not interested in the welfare of
either the citizens of Vancouver
nor returning servicemen. Few
of those who urgently need
houses are in a position to pur-
chase them, and houses construct-
ed by the contractors will be out
of reach of the income bracket
which suffers most from the
housing shortage. If the contrac-
tors are permitted to proceed
with their scheme to build hous-

ing, cannot be tolerated in the
face of the growing crisis. Ald-
erman Jones, in stating that the
city must look out for the inter-
ests of the ratepayers, and direct-
ing attention to the cost, is de-
liberately confusing the clear is-
sue that confronts the people.
A. W. Cowley has stated repeat-
edly that the cost of. sewers,
roads and facilities, will be borne
the federal government.

by
Jones, in using as an excuse the
cost, diverts public attention

from the .ability of a city-spon-
sored housing administration to
bear the burden of a housing
scheme.

Action is the only means “of
escaping from the dilemma that
faces the council. Words have
been said by the thousands,
countless proposals have been ad-
vanced, but the inescapable fact
remains that a housing adminis-
tration, financed by low-interest
bonds and backed up by the re-
sources of provincial and federal
government is the only means by
which a housing plan, within the
reach of the people who most ur-
gently need housing can be in-
stituted.

The citizens of Vancouver
must demand that the city coun-
cil drop its isolationist and ob-
stfuctive attitude. Housing is
needed now and that fact is at-
tested by the demand for action
from many sources. The City
Committee of the Labor-Progres-
sive Party, the Rehabilitation
Council, the Union Councils, and
various committees of private ci-
tizens have confronted the coun-
cil with the problem and have
proposed many solutions. The
contractors have cashed in. on
public sentiment and are advanc-
ing schemes that will divert es-
sential materials from a housing
plan instituted in the interests
of those who most urgently need
houses. There are enough indica-
tions of the need and enough
proposals for the council to act
en.

Mayor Cornett will meet with
Ottawa officials this week, and
it is to be hoped that the federal
government wil clearly state the
lengths to which it is willing to
go to aid in the problem. It is
also hoped that the provincial
government will follow suit. In

,National trade union

International Association

Haddow is perhaps the best
known and most popular union-
ist in Quebec province. After
having personally led the organ-
izing drive which brought all air-
eraft workers in Canada under
the IAM, he led the campaign
in 1942 which brought over
100,000 workers into the inter-
movement
in the Montreal district alone. He
particularly distinguished him-
self as a pioneer in labor-man-
agement production committees,
having been the first union lead
er in Canada to initiate such com-
mittees in plants organized by
the IAM, and the first unionist in
North America to organize L-M
committees in the aircraft in-
dustry.

Labor circles here attribute the
startling development, which
came while Haddow was on his
holidays, to the campaign being
conducted against him by the Du-
plessis lieutenant, Paul Fournier,
whose . pro-fascist activities in
the Montreal Trades and Labor
Council led to that body’s sus-

pension from the Trades and
Labor Congress several weeks
ego. Fournier, who is being

assisted by a group of unionists
having CCF connections, has set
out to deliberately wreck the
organized labor movement in the
province; and because of Had-
dow’s key position, has directed
his fire against the IAM leader.

Removal Of Haddov
Protested By Union:

MONTREAL, Quebec.—The Quebec labor mov
is amazed and angered at the recent action of Grand J
of Machinists,
Robert Haddow from his post as international represer,
for the [AM aircraft lodges because he supported, alons
250 other union leaders, the re-election of Fred Rose ~
federal parliament from Montreal-Cartier.

in dis

Vice-president Steve Lyon’
member. : ;

The labor movement is
cially concerned becaus?

move to dismiss Haddow,
at the precise moment tha®
layoffs were taking place -
aircraft plants and whi
leadership and influence wa
to the. battle for postwa
ployment in the Montreal -
ae ;
oe,
Aeronautical Union offic!’
Vancouver were waiting
notification of Robert Ha,
dismissal before taking ar
tion, PA was informed this
end. It is considered
however, that IAM lodges
Pacifie Goast will also Tc
the action against the M¢
unionist, since he was welll
to aircraft workers here an
tributed greatly to the org ,
tion of workers in the big;
plants in Vancouver an:

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