ACIFIC ADVOCATE

PEOPLE’S VOICE FOR PROGRESS

JEMONSTRATE FOR JOBS

Citizen’s Movement Asks
Prompt Action To Solve
Unemployment Crisis

An open ‘declaration of war on unemployment’ was made this week
by organized labor, as unemployed figures soared and grumblings of protest
-at government inaction to meet the situation were heard from all quarters.

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Labor Party revolt over his im-
perialist policies in Greece and
Indonesia. U.S. State Secretary
Byrnes’s interventionist policies
in China have brought him and
President Truman under the bit-
terest kind of attack from the
American people, the efective-

resulted in depriving | brought the September meeting to such a disastrous close. _
Greater Vancouver of promise of a more constructive outcome from the discussions now going on between

resentatives federally; Reyin, Byrnes and Molotov.

And at least two factors give

man’s latest speech on _ the
Chinese situation in which he re-
iterated his previous non-inter-
vention pledge and called for a
quick solution to China’s inner-
political difficulties. .
Coupled with the news that a
Chinese Communist delegation
under Mao Tse-tung is again in

iness of which was shewn in Tru-! Chungking to resume discussions

for the formation of a coalition
government for China, it be-
comes plain that American im-
perialism’s adventure in Asia is
not proceeding as .smoothly as
Truman and Byrnes had hoped.

Other developments are ceer-
tain to influence the Mescow

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Significantly enough the first expression of labor’s determination to demon-
strate for jobs came from the Marine Workers and Boilermakers Industrial
Union Local No. 1 ,newly-merged shipyard union embracing workers in

FREEDOMS AGAIN
OODWILE TowARD MEN

most categories in that in-
dustry, and the hardest hit

since VJ Day by layoffs and
terminations due to cancella-
tion of war contracts.

Labor’s demonstration will take
the form of a giant protest par-
ade, to assemble at Cambie street
grounds 10 a.m. Saturday and
will march to the City Hall to
demand an interview with Mayor
Cornett. A mass rally will be
held in Boilermakers’ Hall prior
to the parade, and it is expected
that shipyard workers will leave
the job at attend the meeting
and parade.

A meeting of representatives
of the Vancouver Labor Gouncil,
Vancouver, New Westminster and
District’ Trades and -- Labor
Council, with representatives of
the Canadian Legion, B.C. Gom-
mand, Air Forces Association,
called to consider the resolution
passed at the last meeting of
the Vancouver Labor CGouncil
which urged strong action to
meet the unemployment crisis,
decided that the various organ-
izations should make represen-
tations to the official committee
meetings to be held within ten
days at the City Hall, raised the
demand for a broad provincial-
wide conference on unemploy-
ment, and urged support of the
mass protest parade called by
Pthe Marine Workers and Boiler-
makers Industrial Union.

Decision to hold the parade fol-

lowed broadeast of an “Open
Letter to the Prime Minister” by
Garry Culhane, Secretary Ship-
yard General Workers Federa-
tion, last Saturday evening over
a Vancouver radio station. In the
broadcast, Culhane pointed out
“27,006 veterans of this war have
been discharged from the forces
in this area and the vast major-
ity of them are now out of work
and without a decent place to
live.”
* Culhane stated further that
“10,00 displaced war workers,
most. of them the fathers,
brothers and relaitives of the
jobless veterans” go side by side
with the ‘thousand of workless
veterans, “and their plight is no
les serious”.

“Mr. Prime Minister,” Cul-
hane aserted, “I charge that
this situation which is char-
acteristic of every city in Can-
ada today, though more acute
in B.C., exists as the direct re-
sult of a cold-blooded and de-
liberate plot against the Cana-
dian people. I charge that

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