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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.”

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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

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years.
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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.

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acquiesce in developments which
have the gravest bearing on the
safety and well-being of the peo-
ple of this province. Bernard
Webber; well known for his anti-
Soviet tendencies; will share the
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