Demand
Trial For -
Arcand

Joining the chorus of protest
that has been heard right across
Canada with the release of Ad-
rien Areand. fascist Hitler infor-
mant. the Shipyard General
Workers’ Federation this week
forwarded a telegram to Prime
Minister Mackenzie King. Jus-

. tice Minister St. Laurent, and
Lieut. General McNaughton, de-

manding that Arcand be placed |

on trial for his crime of treason
to the nation. °

The telegram, signed by Mal-
colm McLeod, Federation presi-
dent, states:

“Shipyard General Workers’

Federation of British Columbia.

_ is alarmed at the recent release
from internment of the notorious
Adrien Arcand. leader of the
Nazi Spy System in Canada.
Your government promised open
trial and complete exposure of
this individual and his activities
in 1940’

“Thousands of our boys have
died in struggle against Nazis

“In their name we demand
Canadian Government put Ar-
cand and accomplices on trial
and wage aggressive campaign
and destrsy Nazi spy network”

WASHINGTON — CIO presi-
dent Philip Murray announced
the inauguration of an intensive
nationwide campaign by the
CIO Political Action Committee
on a six-point legislative. pro-
gram. The program includes im-
mediate passage of the United
Nations Charter and Bretton
Woods monetary agreements, the
upward revision of national wage
policy, a 65-cent an hour mini-
mum wage, federal
legislation, a permanent Fait
Employment Practices _Commis-
sion, enactment of bills now be-
fore Congress providing for full
employment and for extended
social security.

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unemploy- :

To Form Tennants’ League

A special meeting will be called by the Labor-Progressive
Party, for the Purpose of forming a Tenants’ League, on July
26, in the Hastings Auditorium.
Invite citizens undergoing any hardship due to the present
It is expected that the League
m with the Anti-Eviction Com-
the Citizen’s Emergency Housing Committee, and
other groups formed for the purpose of fighting for a work-
able housing scheme, ceiling prices on land and housing, and
the correction of present housing difficulties.

When the organization is formed, it is expected that the

housing crisis to take part.
will work in close cooperatio
mittee,

League will affiliate to the
Committee.

The Tenants’ League will

Citizens’ Emergency Housing

al ousing Continued

eviction orders for the protection
of such veterans.

CON TRACTORS SKEPTICAL

The B.C. Contractors’ Associa-
tion, this week, were “skeptical”
of the success of any scheme put
forward. They ‘drew ‘the red
herring of “the problem of sup-
ply and material” across the
path of progress toward solution
of the housing dilemma, and
stated that the “profit was in-
adequate” in the finance depart-
ment’s proposed scheme. Al-
though they later stated that the
federal housing plan as an-
nounced was “just what they
needed,” it appeared obvious to
the public that the Contractors
Association’s interest in housing
depended on how much was in it
for them and it was clear that
unless there is a sufficient mar-
gin of profit in housebuilding for
the builders they will do nothing
te assist in relieving the situa-
tion. 2

The chief danger in the civic
proposals for housing was the
possibility that the needs of the
citizens might be forgotten after
the servicemen are dealt with.
Mayor Cornett hinted that the

present housing scheme if passed

| by the federal government, would

be financed by government issued
bond or loan. He also hinted that
the government would proceed on

a low-rental housing scheme
after the needs of servicemen
are met. _

NO CLARIFICATION

There was still no clarification,
however, as tosjust who was go-
ing to construct the houses once
the plan is initiated. The B.C.
Contractors Association, smelling
a scheme in which there might
possibly be a “quick killing” to
be made, might move in and
build the houses. The Citizen’s
Emergency Housing Committee
was demanding, however, that a
public administration be set up,
and in this they offered a lead as
to the best means of building and
administering the new housing
proposals.

The public will have to demand
that housing be a public respon-
sibility, and that machinery to
administer housing be estab-
lished as soon as the civic plan
is approved.

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all times.

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Westminster

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We will meet any competitor’s price at any time,
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the CCF has begun the with-
drawal and suspension of Koot-
enay West CCF elub charters
and the expulsion of individual
members within these clubs.
This unfortunate activity is be-
ing carried on in spite of the
endorsement by the people of
Kootenay West of the stand
‘taken by the CCF organizations
in the matter of the nomination
of H. W. Herridge as federal
candidate. :

“We are now informed that it
is the intention of the provincial
executive to send a paid organ-
izer into Kootenay West to at-
tempt the building of a meve-
ment purged of all those demo-
cratic elements who insist upon
the fundamental right of the
rank and file to choose the mem-
bers who will represent them in
the parliaments of this country.

“We had hoped that the de-
cisive expression’ of the
people’s will in Kootenay West
would cause the provincial ex-
ecutive to realize that ‘a. very
serious mistake had been made,
and that the election result
would spur the executive to
constructive action for the

CCF eeontinu:

building of a united. me
in British Columbia. :
“Fortunately there a,
signs that the policy of
vincial executive is not t)
of a wide section of
membership in British C
Excellent financial as
and encouraging corres
received from a large nt)
CCF members in Britisk
bia, but not resident in 1
West, indicates very str#
port for our understai
democratic principles.
account we are still hop:
widespread protests f:
CCF membership in E
cause the provincial exe:
reconsider the policy be
sued with regard to the Ff
West section of the CCF
adoption of a constructiy
for the future. 2H
“The People’s CCF in’
ay West stands firmly '
democratic principles
Regina Manifesto, and ig
Sary intends to uphol
principles by the nomin
candidates for the comi/
vincial election.” ..

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