Grandview Community Housing conference, held under LPP aus-
pices. Seventeen erganizations representing 30,000 citizens of the

area participated..Garry Culhane,
eral Workers’ Federation, chaired:

Secretary of the Shipyard Gen-
the conference.

Homes - First Object
For A Secure Peace

46

Neilsen, speaking with Dyson
here last week.

The national legislative secre-
tary of the lLabor-Progressive
party has been touring the
Dominion as organizer of the
LPP housing campaigns “For
five years all of our attention
has been focussed on the tre-
mendous task of destroying the
military might of fascism,” she
pointed out; “we must now
mobilize the common people and
concentrate all of our energies
to win the peace. It was not the
big names that won the war,
but the efforts and sacrifice of
the small- people, the same
people who must now fight to
Win the battle for homes and
j0bs.””

Emphasizing the nationwide
nature of the problem, Mrs.
Neilsen stated “There is not one
city, big or small, which is not
facing problems of homes; this
applies equally to small towns
“Wherever I

in rural areas.
have travelled, Windsor, Mon-
treal, Toronto, Portage la
Prairie, housing is the most
eritical problem facing the
people. :

“We were aroused to anger
during the war; we should be
equally angry now when we are
faced with the slow moral,
physical and mental degenera-
tion of our people as a result
of inadequate housing.”

Stressinge the hardships facing
men returning from the active
forces, Mrs. Neilsen quoted the
president of the Canadian Le-
gion as stating that 438 percent
of the veterans are without
homes.

“Never once in any one year
have buildimge projects come near
fulfillimge the needs of the
people,” Mrs. Neilsen continued.
“The situation has now deterior-
ated to the point where, even to
take care of the vicious over-

crowding, we would have to
build the equivalent of four
large cities.”

“T have been able to observe
some of the reasons for the
hold-up in ‘home building,” she
went on. “For instance, in Otta-
wa building permits have been
issued for a sixty thousand dol-
lar luxury theatre, for expensive
extensions and alterations to the
Birks jewellery building, a fif-

teen thousand dollar home _and
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Ne must refuse to sacrifice another feneration of our
ioe on the altar of government iniditferciace ”

* said Dorise
Carter at two housing rallies

several new service stations, this
in a city where civil servants
crowd seven and eight to a room
in order to keep a roof over their
heads.”

Himphasizing the need for low
rental homes, Mrs. Neilsen
pointed out that even the cheap-
est well constructed home can-

not be built for less than
$4,000, or a rental of 40 dollars
per month.

“To-day, the take home pay
for the people is sufferine drastic
reduction,” she said. “We have a
Situation where 60 percent of
the people are not making more
than a thousand dollars per
year. This means that over half
of the population cannot afford

to pay more than twenty dol-

lars a month rent, while the
Curtiss report places the desir-
able figure at twelve dollars per
month.

“We should at least catch up
to Holland and Great Britain
and implement the provisions of
our own governmental report,”
Dorise Neilsen concluded. “We
subsidize milk for children; it
is of more importance to subsi-
dise homes.

LPP Organizer Denounces
Vicious “anti-Soviet Campaign —

Maurice Rush,

public meeting in the Boilermakers’
the red- baiting chorus jaunched by the Kin g
Rush

is regrettable,”

“Tt

mation the government had, but
opinion there is a definite link up with the communists.

“But this is no isolated at-
tack’, Rush continued, pointing
to a statement made by their
Secretary, Frank
charging that the
; instructions
is

Provincial
Miackenzie,
LPP implements
from the Soviet Union and
the only loyalty it knows’. “These
leaders of the GCE who join in
the attack on the left wing of
the labor movement and on the
communists, are Serving the pur-
pose of Canadian reaction in al-
lowing themselves to be imstru-
ments of the monopolists in Can-
ada against what is best for the
labor movement.”

Turning to the international
aspects of the question, Rush
stated it had been openly admit-
ted the timing of King’s an-
nouncement.was a subject for
discussion months ago between
the heads of the three English-
speaking states, and it had also
been reported in the press that
Canada was chosen as the coun-
try in which this attack was to
be launched. “The Canadian
people”, he asserted, “have a
right to demand what political
consideration there were in the
discussions between King, Attlee
and Truman, which led to the
present situation amd strained
relations between Canada and
the Soviet Union. That there
were such considerations there
ean be no doubt.”

Basing himself on the facts
in the case, Rush charged that
the present, unbridled attack on
the Soviet Union was intended
to serve the following two pur-
poses: (1) As a follow-up on
Bevin’s attack on the Soviet
Union at UNO, in the hope of
isolating the Soviet Wnion and
establishing a basis for public
support for future anti-Soviet
actions. (2) As a diversionary
movement to conceal from the

Comox Sets Up Active
Labor-Veteran Committee

COURTENA Y~ The

Comox District Joint Labor

Council has invited the Canadian Legion Branches at Comox

and Cumberland to appoint or elect delegates to a joint
Labor-Veteran Consultative Committee which they decided
to set up following an address to the Council last week (Feb.
18) by Bert Marcuse, Director of the Trade Union Research

Bureau.

The speaker, who is Labor Re-
lations member of the Executive
of Canadian Legion New Veter-
an’s Branch No. 168, spoke to
them on steps underway in Van-
eouver to help create the closest
possible co-operation between
organized labor and the veterans.
Mr. Mareuse explained the Joint

committee recently set up in
Vancouver, consisting of eight
members representing equally,

veterans and labor and which
was initiated by Jack Hender-
son, Provincial President of the
Canadian Legion and Messrs,
Geryin and Turner on behalf of

the AFI and ©CL Trade Goun-
ceils.

Mr. Marcuse, who is touring
the island in connection with
IWA 1946 negotiations, empha-
sized the importance of labor and
veterans elearing misunder-
standings and adjusting griey-
ances amicably and promptly
and stated that the path to bet-
ter conditions for all workers lay
through labor-veteran unity and
urged that such Joint Gouncils
be set up wherever both the vet-
erans and labor had their organ-
izations. A joint Labor-Veteran
Consultative committee has al-
ready been set up in Courtenay.

Prov meal Organizer of the Labor- Progressive Party,
Hall recently, charged CCF leaders with joining }
- announcement of spy activities in Canad)

stated,

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“that some so-called labor leaders,
the interests of reaction by joining in the anti-communist attack. When asked to con

ment on King’s statement, Angus MacInnis confessed he did not know how much info
af the foreign country involved is Russia, then in mh

speaking at

should ser

people the role played by the So-
viet Union at UNO im champions
ing the cause of independence
and democracy for the peoples of
Greece and the colonial countries.

Scoring attempts of reaction-
aries to charge Canadian friend-

f
ship organizations, leaders “|
trade unions and political partie
such as the LPP, with being pa®
of an alleged fifth column, R
concluded with a plea for uni
and determined action on
part of all progressive elemeni

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and radio hysteria during the last ten days, on an allege

“espionage hunt.

falsification, the commercial press
anti-Soviet “spy scare.’
Since Prime Minister King

made his first statement regard-
ing: this alleged espionage, all the
reactionaries, from the hard-

boiled tories to the yellow social
democrats have climbed on the
Drew,

anti-Soviet band-wagon.
Duplessis, Gerry
McGeer, Howards
Green,
MacInnis,
Coldwell
have found a
common ground
of political affin
ity in this anti
Russian cam
paign. They saw
in it an oppor-=
tunity to vent
their class hatret upon the (Com-
munists, upon the LPP, upon the
trade unions. Their actions have
enee again vindicated our re-
peated contention through the
years—that every attack upen

the Soyiet Union is in reality
an attack against Labor at
home.

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