‘can we “sixty-four-dol- for thousands ing veterans; for rousands of laid-off ae ljeaving the produc- £ wartime industries fig peace time jobs. insisting that govern- re responsibility - for pyment, in. the same Gil ea at decent wages? Pay Reduction Inauguration of the forty=_ hour week without reduction in pay is a vitally important post- war measure to assure full em- ployment. A.reduction in work- ing hours will provide more jobs. It. will correspond to the technological development of Canadian industry during the war, and it will give our work- ry the program Morgan” x Mancouver ce Rush X Vancouver Center 4 Pritchett x Vancouver East Ps Stewart X Vancouver East Mason X Vancouver Burrard lotnik X Vancouver Burrard Goss X Point Grey Gordon. X Point Grey m Martin X Point Grey n Delaney X North Vancouver »eth Wilson X ‘Burnaby it Kerr X Victoria — |. White X Saanich + McEwen x Comox Jewhurst X Alberni e Mickleburgh X Prince Rupert - Cooke X Kamloops i Clapp X Grandforks am Brown X Cranbrook ‘les Stewart, Jr. y Campbell X Remember: For assured progress, ction, .vote Labor-Progressive! | hai ce fetes. to jhe fighting | Labor- Be isive- * Party program = ings, Security. —— 2] eindidetes: will: 7 torate in the Campaign.which. will dé- : whether, after October 25; British Lmbia will have a. government of pro- issive unity or aq gevernment of- Tory- | bral Coalition: | ‘Support-the fight of _Labor-Progressive: pene * for “security ‘he postwar,. jobs for c housing program Aark your ballots pecs: ‘the names the. following. candidates: — X New Westminster People’s unity won the ar. People’s unity can win the peace. * for Jobs, of the LPP to»the pals L, and a rea- Center McKenzie security and “4. NIGEL MORGAN. 24 | “LPP Provincial Leader and Can- =e ing people more leisure time for self-improvement, study, and enjoyment of life. > @ HROUGHOUT the United States the forty-hour week and the eight-hour day are rec- ognized by law as a sufficient- ly long hourly werk week and - day. Indicative of the import- ance placed on this maximum _didate for Vancouver. Center was the declaration made dur- ing the height of wartime pro- -duction -demands-by--a United States Government Conference on labor legislation held at In- dianapolis on November 19, . 1942 which stated— “The Conference is unalter- ably opposed to any modifica- tion of the “Fair Labor Stan- dards Act which might destroy the principle requiring the pay- ment of straight time for the first 40 hours*of work per week and the payment of time and a half for work in excess of 40 hours. We recognize the need for maximum production for war purposes which has already Photo shows sculptural- group reinstalled moved for safekeeping during the siege. eek -- by Nigel Morgan required many industries to es- tablish work weeks in, excess. of the basic 40 hour week with the payment of time and a half for hours beyond this basic week.” Obviously Canada is lagging far behind in such matters. What better time could be found for making such an ad- justment, now that jobs will be at a premium, and we have to meet responsibilities to those who have sacrificed so much during the war. Right down through ‘the his- ,tory..of the struggle:.for.a . shorter working,.week — even “when _ the hours , wére 18, 12 and “10 a day =— reactionary, “antilabor forces ‘stated identi- i tally: the same.thing-at the time ,pof \the; mala ey of the. “Hight the “Work- eeeey® dther® piece’ of progrés- sive” lepislation “that was pro- ‘duced. Since: .then::they shave week will 'be proven:wrang-also. 7 Labo, as “represented .by ‘the Canadian Congress..of Labor, mes Trades and Labor. ‘Congress ..0 and.other affiliated unions have formulated a demand for the forty-hour .week swithout. reduc- tion in pay. j ~No..sooner -has.! Jabor- amnited .around this demand -and pre- pared:to wage battle, than cer- tain: super-militants of the CCF bring forward the slogan’ for the thirty-hour: week. As if the struggle for forty hours wasn’t big enough! Such irresponsible action can do nothing: but cre- ate disunity, confusion’and dis- ruption,: in fact aid in stalling off favorable decision. In this struggle as ‘in the election, unity not disunity, is what is required. — a practical, realizable pro- gram, not starry-eyed romanti- eism. The trade unions have ordered themselves as demand- ” quire: “4s its program'’so completely ‘lacking of any of ‘the guaran- . tees labor asks? eee 3 - been. proven? wrong, ,and those ~“ ireactionaries! who:teday. oppose - . the: inauguration sof ‘the 40-hour : on the Anichkov bridge—Leningrad. It ing the forty-hour week. Every spokesman of labor should give the demand loyal and uncondi- tional support. The unexpected surender of Japanese Fascism has project- ed the issue of reconversion and rehabilitation of the Armed Services right into the fore- front. The grandiose promises of what was to be. done with, and for, our veterans and war workers obviously are not be- ing .carried out. The key to full employment—the twin problem of maintaining wartime living standards with a progressive reduction in hours of work — has now been staring us in the face for pratically three months. Yet the stark fact remains that practically nothing has been done by either federal or pro- vincial - governments in this re- gard. The Hart:Maitland Coalition, asking for= \rée-endorsement:: of the eléctorate has made abse- lutely no commitments: on:'la- ber’s demand for a forty-hour ‘week. ‘This Tory ~Coalition ap- parently is’ incapable’ of the de- cisive action « these” “times “re- If, this ‘is’ ‘not’ so why yest. ‘before | the: war there were three-and' three-quarter million people gainfully-“employ- ed in’ Canada. Ifwe- cannot find employment for*more*than that number now that the! war: is ““over, there will be néarly a mil- Canada, . ‘the. B.G.. Federation - of oa lion’ energetic men and women -¢elamoring for work. ‘Te Puar- antee ‘full employment we need immediately 25 percent » more jobs than éxisted in 1939.-Jobs ‘for four anda half million men and ‘womenj which is practical- ly a million’ more'than existed in the boom year 1929. To: meet this “problem ‘will require re- sourcefulness, bold planning: and government direction. We cannot tolerate inaction any more in peace than we could in war. No more hungry _ thirties. No more idleness while people need homes, food, educa- tion, recreation, medical, dental and other services. While our communities need power, second- ary manufacturing industries, construction and conservation work. was re- PU ey SS Ate ee bl : > ADVOCATE—PAGE 11 . SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1945