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Prevent
Evictions

Protesting the eviction of citi-
zens in the face of Vancouver’s
most serious housing crisis, a
group of over 40 men and women
this week formed picket lines in
front. of the home of Mr. and Mrs
G. Y. L. Chen, 540 Gore St. and
heir four children. Mrs. Chen,
a Chinese Canadian woman, who
has lived in the house for ten
years was ordered evicted by her
landlord, who informed her. that
the house had been “condemned.”

. In an interview with P.A., Mrs
Chen pointed out that a number
of competent witnesses, includ-
ing the building inspector had
denied that the houses were
condemned. “Any repairs needed
could just as well be done with-
out moving us out of the house,”
Mrs. Chen told P.A.

There are four empty resi-
dences neighboring the Chen
home, all owned by the same
landlord, who is at present hav-
ing them renovated. The row of
houses are in need of the ree
pairs but an inspection of the
Chen premises revealed that it
would not be necessary for the
family to be moved in order for
repairs to be done.

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visit to U.S., they explained, is to
acquaint the American labor
movement with the acute prob-
lems French

Recs For PEOPLE WHO now facing the
ARE TEMPTED Ae people and to enlist U.S. labor’s
LEA MORE nels help in getting the needed sup-
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Gerard Ouradou, general secre-
tary of the National Railway
Federation of France and a mem-
ber of the French Consultative
Assembly, Jean Brodier, general
secretary of the French Confed-
eration of Christian Workers
(CFTC) and Marcel Jean Emile
Camus, a member of the Metal
Workers Union and of the Cent-
ral Committee of Parisian Un-
ions affiliated with the General
Confederation of Labor’ (CGT).
Each will make a separate tour
through various parts of the
country under the sponsorship of
the Office of War Information.

COAL SHORTAGE
Emphasizing the urgent need
for coal, Ouradou, a Socialist,
pointed out that it could be: ob-
tained from the Ruhr and that
the labor shortage could be al-
leviated by the use of German
War prisoners. There‘are now
20,000 Germans employed in
French mines, he said, but 200,-
000 are needed. Discussing the
transportation prohlem, Ouradou

Communists Ask
Investigation

OSLO—The Communist news-
paper, Friheten, recently pub-
lished a letter from the Norwe-
gian Communist Party to the
Swedish government, requesting
an investigation into the cases of
two Norwegian citizens, both
members of the Communist
Party, who were handed over to
the Germans in 1941 by the
Swedish court, contrary to the
laws of asylum. The report fur-
ther states that the two were
taken to Germany, and after be-
ing subjected to long torure, were
finally executed in 1944.

- The letter demands that the
families of FeGtwo men receive
compensati'from: ‘epathe. Swedish
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PREPARE FOR POST-
WAR DEVELOPMENTS

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U.S.; Urge American Aid ©

NEW YORK—One million French workers will be thrown out of work by |
unless France’s severe coal and steel shortage is ‘immediately eased, three Fre: i

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leaders now on a tour of the U.S. revealed here.

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shut down by Octobe:4
tion at present is not ;
it could be, he said, a
due in part to lack of c

stated that the Allies are now
using 40 percent of the French
railway facilities. Out of
France’s 15,000 pre-war locomo-
tives the Germans left only 3000, I
he said, but by working 54 hours |from- certain industr
a week, French workers have | profited during the Ger
now restored 6000. pation and are now s
Brodier expressed a particular | obStruct progress. «
desire to study the mass produc-
tion methods of American heavy
industry, pointing out that
French labor is seeking the na-
tionalization of basic industries |
and that the workers themselves
must be trained to assume man-
agerial responsibilities.

PUNISH COLLABORATERS
The immediate demands of
French labor, Camus said, are
the punishment of collaboration-
ists, the use of German labor for
reparations and the raising of
living standards both in France
and throughout the world. Camus
stated that France now has or-
ders in the U.S. for urgently
needed steel:and if these orders
are not immediately filled, half

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union, Camus, a C
said that it had starte
of .courses on general :
technical subjects in or
lieve the shortage of ;:
bor. Workers attend ‘—
courses at night, he |
that has been found pe.
useful in retraining |
French war prisoners. ]
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