Li. No.1.

Pacific Tribune, Friday, February 15, 1946
ts Formerly PACIFIC ADVOGATE

arshal Stalin Warns
Against War Danger
n Election Speech

LPP Supports

increased

Wage Drive
“The coming wage strug-
gles in Canada are emanating
from the ranks of the unions.
The people of Canada are on
the move and the spirit of
the people is a fighting spir-
it,’ stated Nigel Morgan in
his address to a membership
meeting of the Labor-Pro-
gressive party held in Van-

During the general election campaign in the Soviet
Inion (voting day was on Feb. 10th), two outstanding
2zeches were made by Soviet leaders which have a tremend=
$ importance to millions of people outside of the USSR.
Jedsing his country’s un-
srying support of UNO as a
asuce of ensuring the peace-
economic development of the
}iet Union, Foreign Minister
acheslay Molotev challenged
italist Britam and America
2 post-war race in economic
Social development. Such a
se” carried on in the spirit
mutual friendly relations be-
en the bie three powers,
dd give impetus and incentive
sackling the yital problem of
employment and post-war
mstruction in al] the leading
italist countries. Russia’s
- in UNO, Molotov told the
‘jet electorate, was to en-
» its effectiveness as a curb

the conditions of world capital-
ism ,with its imperialist imtri-
gues ,and monopoly control and
dommnetion of !markets and
spheres of influence, the out-
look for. permanent peace was
none too bright.

“Wars could be avoided”,
Marshall Stalin declared in a
nation-wide broadcast,” if there

bution of raw materials and ex-
port markets”. Such a “fair dis-
tribution” ’of raw materials and
2ecess to world markets by all
nations and peoples, is one of the
basic tenets of the Atlantic
Charter. The spectacle of im-
perialist domination over the
lives and welfare of millions of

powerful
movement can assure victory.
“The Canadian government has
not changed its policy one scrap”
the “LPP provincial leader con-
tinued,
amendments to the government
wage control order P.C. 9384 in
effect are still calculated te keep
wages frozen whilst the release |
waS a possibility of fair distri- | 6f price controls will be followed
by a skyrocketine of prices which
will
lamreads on the real wages or
‘take home pay’ of the workers.”

couver last Sunday.

Welcoming: the coming wage
conference of the €@CL unions
Morgan pointed out that only a
coordinated National

“recently announced

immediately make further

_iIn a fighting speech which

called on the LPP membership
to rally all of its forces for the
coming struggle, Morgan stress-

mmperialist war-mongers and
TeSSors, ae to guarantee to
USSR “a lengthy period of
is and ensured security”.

=rd on the heels of Moilotov’s
=war reconstruction  chal-
© to the people of the cap-
Bt; world came Marshal Stal-
warning to the people of the
R—and the world; a warn-
that war is unavoidable under
valism. A warning that under

JSSR, Edward Stettinius
etary Ernest Bevin. =

dia, Egypt, Palestine,
indicate that

See STALIN

‘King out procedure during session of United Nations
anization in London are, left to right: Andrei Vishinsky
and British Foreign:

of U:S.,)

peoples in Greece, Indonesia, In-

reactionary.
perialist powers with their so-
cal democratic lackies, are block
ing the free democratic expres-
Sion and right to self sovern-
ment of millions of people, and
preparing the sroundwork which

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ed the fact that the fight for
Wages was not the fight of or-
ganized labor alone but was in
fact a fight for national prosper-
ity. “Big business is on the of-
fensive with the object of driving
down the living standards of the
Canadian people and smashing
the trade union movement.”

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See SUPPORT DEMANDS

Fight For Wages-Homes

Sweeping Canada -U.S.;
Labor Plans Big Lobby

West End LPP Club, Vancouver. Window display indicates
a busy center in the LPP Housing Campaisn.

LOA:

Observers were quick to point
to the similarity in housing con-
ditions between Canada and the
U.S. Significant, too, was Presi-
dent Truman’s recosnition that
government action is the main
solution to the emergency, a
basic point in the LPP’s cam-
paign for 250,000 new homes in
Canada through government sub-
sidies.

The shortage of decent homes
is as acute, and in some areas
even more critical, than in Can-
ada. Americans are faced with

the same two-fold problem of

Mass Lobby

the history of the province.

Impressing on all delegates
the importance of electing their
delegates, Daniel O’Brien, CCL
representative, stated that the
lobby would Jast from February
24 to 28. Drawing attention to
the tremendous ‘advances that
labor had made in this province
as a result of united action,
@’Brien strongly condemned any
attempt to divide or disrupt the
present unity. Recalling at-
tempts made last year to disrupt
the lobby at that time, O’Brien
scored a report appearing in the
Vancouver Sun to the effect that

the Joint Labor Government

Labor Prepares United

For Victoria

It is expected that delegates representing every union,
AFL and CCL, will participate in the mass labor lobby
planned for the opening of the B:C. legislature. Backed by
members of the Canadian Legion, United labor will press
its demands upon the government in a lobby unequalled in

committee was about to disband,
as an attempt by these same

“political termites’ to sow con=
fusion. “We have succeeded in
sitting down with all of the re-
sponsible labor leaders in the
province te work out procedure
for joint action on labor’s legis-
lative demands” stated O’Brien
“Anyone who would attempt to
sabotage this effort, which un-
doubtedly is giving a lead to la-
bor across the Dominion should
be roundly condemned’’.

Both AFL and CCL councils
are circularisine their unions
urging full participation by
locals in the march on Victoria.

U.S. Gives Lead To
Canada On Housing

The demand for low rental housing in Canada, fast be-
coming a key national issue under the impetus of the emerg-
ency and the national housing campaign being conducted ——
by the Labor-Progressive Party, has been Strengthened by

the United States’ government decision to initiate the con-
struction of 2,700,000 new housing units during 1946 and

private industry being both un-
able and unwilling to meet the
emergency, plus the fact that the
majority of people without
proper accommodation are un-
able to build or purchase their
own home.

it was these facts, coupled
with the tremendous pressure
for action by labor and veteran
groups, which forced the Tru-
man administration last week to
announce its new home-building
program. Under this program,
the government will underwrite
low-rental housing projects in
hard-hit areas, establish prior-
ities on building materials, triple
the number of workers on resi-
dental construction and raise
wages, where necessary, and
stimulate development of ‘the
pre-fabricated housing industry.

Other steps to be taken in-
clude the imposing of price ‘ceil,
ings on building lots and houses,
new or old, the creation of more
effective nes controls on ma-
terials, and the Coniintation of
rent ceilings.
There is a striking similarity
between the U.S. housing pro-
gram and the proposals advanced
during the past three weeks by
the LPP in its national housing
campaign, which calls for the
Setting aside of one billion dol-
lars by the federal government
for construction of 250,000 new
low-rental homes. That cam-
paign is already achieving re-
sults both in a direct and in-
direct way. Indirectly, it has re-
sulted in editorials and articles
in @2 number of Canadian news-
Papers, and a general quickening

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