abate sme pale, mame eda nn = ¢ refunds on the excess profits tax Unemployment | ment’ would be formed to plan for the organization of a power- ful unemployed organization. DELIBERATE MOVE Support for such a move was strengthened by earlier reports from union delegates on the ex- tent of the jobless crisis. , Ma'colm Macleod, Shipyard General Workers Federation, told of growing layoffs in shipyards. with as many as 50 to 60 men being discharged daily as part of a “deliberate move by ship- yard managements to create a big unemployed pool and later break the shipyard unions.” W. Symington of the United Packinghouse Workers reported that the Burns packing plant. which had advertised in August for workers wanting steady em- ployment, was now laying off the new employees, many of them vet- erans, after only two months work. “It’s a bitter pill for the men who have been overseas,” Sym- ington remarked, adding further that the union was proposing ar even further reduction _in work- ing hours in the industry so as to spread available jobs further. Meanwhile conservative esti- mates place jobless totals in Vancouver alone at well over the 20000 =figure, with newly} discharged veterans and newly laid-off workers swelling this by at-least several hundreds each week. What. angers working people most about the situation is their conviction that the presen crisis is being deliberately created by industrialists who are using their to |stall on reconversion until wages are forced down to a level that will guarantee them a con- tinuation of the super-profits en- joyed during the war. Rally cial, and municipal governments are silent partners in the attack on wage standards. “The rea: son: our governments, the serv- ants of private enterprise are eomplying with the drive of Ca- nadian capital. They cry ‘leave it to private enterprise,’ and pri- vate enterprise builds breadlines instead of homes.” “Canadians know better than to rely on “private enterprise.” They remember the thirties,’ the leaflet states. “It can happen again unless sufficient public pressure can be exerted on our government.” HAstings 4030 Night Phones: MA. 7067 - FA. 6115-R Active Trading Co. 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Teheran and Yalta. ment and munitions. left Arms Shipment — Advocated Affiliated locals of the CCL Vancouver Labor Council were called on this week to refuse to handle, ioad,. or in any way assist in the shipment of military equipment or other supplies to Dutch and British troops now attempting to smash the Indonesian Bepublie's movement. for inde- The move wrs backed by a resolution, paced unani- mously by delegates to the regular labor council meeting, which pointed to the struggle of the Indonesia people as affirming their desires for freedom from colonial oppression guaranteed under the Atlantic Charter, The resolution noted with alarm the Canadian govern- ment’s advancing of $65,000,000 in credits to the Nether- lands government with which to buy Canadian army equip- in Europe, such credits were being used by the Dutch to arm and equip their expeditionary forces being sent to Java. and affirmed at pointing out that markets to inflate their prices’’. Further demands raised at the Convention included: @ A federal] labor code. Fail- ing such action ammendment of the Industrial Concilliation and Arbitration Act to provide check- off and union security tn the form of maintenance of member- ship, union and closed shops bas- ed on the wishes of union mem- bership. @ Minimum unemployment in- surance benefits of $25.00 per wek. starting the first day of unemployment. @ A hospital and health insur- ance plan, backed by federal and provincial governments, cov- ering every man, woman and child regardless of ability to pay. @ Old age pension of $80.00 per month starting at sixty years. @ Establishment of special Hand-made Gifts, Woollen eRe NE A ERA EA EER EEG -SAT., IDIGC. 155 875 E. HASTINGS L— | 3 Reading, Games Wazse Policies committees including labor and veterans, to asure labor-veteran cooperation in all measures. @ Demanding of the Federal government that it take no part in any “atomic axis”, and called on the federal government to take over present-known and future found deposits of pitch- blende. @ Issued a call to the Cana-! dian Congress of Labor raising the demand for a 24-hour sym- pathy strike in support of the Windsor-Ford strikers. @ Condemned the Canadian government for shipping arms to Java and protests were made over British intervention in Java. @ Elimination of property qualfications in federal, provin- cial. and evic elections. @ Urged that aliens apply for Canadian citizenship after 5 years residence. @ Demanded the outlawing of company towns by statute. Continuous from 10 a.m. 3 Socks, Baby Wear, Teacup eo a bills. 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This government must speak out against those forces which plan to use northwest Canada as a basis of attack against the Soviet Union. It is a provincial as well as a national question. This by-election provides the oc- casion for sounding a warning to the people of this Pacific province. The Dominion-Provincial parley has been effectively sabotaged. Insistence on narrow ‘provincial rights’ is preventing implementa- tion of even the timorous steps proposed by the King government. While the burning questions of housing, jobs, and social secur- ity await immediate action, the Tory dominated provinces o£ Quebec and Ontario. ably second- ed by the Hart-Maitland coali- tion in our own province, delib- erately stalls action.- The people of the North Okana- gan are faced with the responsi- bility of speaking out on belalf of all of the people of this prov- ince for jobs, for a vast public works program, for public pow- er development, for homes, and for lasting peace. ish yards, 1 Provincial week: : “The crossfire manager of the — spokesman for Bri ing interests have of the bag as far dustry is concern ly justifies the industry. Certai: action should be t tain by requiring Canadian use be builtin Can war workers and -“The demands # merchant marine ° prospects for placing of orders cials which they not be filled in which should and pleted in British Ga. 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