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presidents and their officers

Did
filers in another and

so on which would not make to-
s

, Whereas, our union, whieh his

Why Do Things

Joe houldstt have made that
Chesi

What do you think Joe said to

Bill just before the battle started?

y, “AN
Chest is just a racket. It’s set up
to get a lot of guys big salaries”?
Did he say, “What do me need the
Chest for, anyway. every-

an do tl ie"?

See is a crack was, Joe |
should have said it someone
else—not Bill. You see, Bill ce
about me Community Chest the
hard wi

It ise n the ae ate
Bill's wife aie have to

sanitarium for at aa six
months. Bill had a good job

he the basic an of the i
estab | vou can't exi

province makes towa1

s
operation are ae ey
on the sho) com-
ag as the cee may “be, Sed

of the an

Bhar conto = ea
oaee establish a ‘tir eae
ing care of the day lab-

aYThim t

The Hard Way?

crack about the Community

community services vate eo that
a man could ¢: ae if he
jam.

have

she was

—and Bill got his priority on that
visiting homemaker bec: there
kids be prot d in his

saad reports ie me Sanitarium.

Pitta Order

long hetore is. eather
isn’t charity. ah paid
for the vis’
N.
They would come
couldn’t have aad a cent eerie

y NIGEL MOR

B G.
International Board Member and Legislative

Director

annual convention of the CIO in Philadelphia last November,
an ee Political Action cam; ae a

paign was mapped out.
Hime the program, adopted unanimously by that convention, has me
with spectacular success. In fact it is credited with having “inet cd
out” such well know:

anti-labor, isolationist ere
Dies and ap eoren Ea” Smith, as well as scores of other:

in ane rec
primarie: President Roose-
elt an on the success or failure of CIO’s cam} ig
‘he "' d by our

ion. rms of its ‘most important activities.
Last month the Canadian Con: of Labor established a National
Political Action Committee, which, meeting in Toronto, drafted a pro-
gram of vital interest to all Canadi:

The CCL’s program

ae for the mobilization of the membership
in

rogram for full employment in the
postwar. A comprehensive Program of social security heads the list
f immediate and long range political aims. rogram will form the

ill fe
is for extensive activity along non-partisan political lines
ee ress unions,
Pointing on oy full employment au been achieved auee
ae le to the program expre:

among

he

Wi for imilar pu ee in peacetime,
“the eoigiect of poverty, iscouity ae
eae ‘ jobs at union -wages” for
and able to work heads the progr:
idle machines and idle men.’
calls for social ownership of banl
of Canada’s monetary a:

as woman willing
mo:

generous paym ease fee bene-
fits; eee benefits and children’s coe as a’supplement to.
but not as a substitute for, adequate wa;

of such wartime sata as prove necessary during
ii ing and

rogram for full employment ie public ownership ot! dio sta-
tions; improved ae tiie and better actetas ior Beech:

, ; the encourageme! ‘o-operatives; and positi s for
ris ont aa she away |™Unity Chest Appeal and the gov-| community recreation eae discrimination is condemned and 1 meas-
worrying and the doc said worry-|¢tmment keep ae ates go-| ures against it proj oe The extension of federal powers to enable
ing was the worst hin she coulg |ing: But he could is share | the Dominion government to legislate on labor social questions
a, Rien rertitist the and to implement Tternati coal 2 abor Conventions, is also demanded,
tried to find a housekeeper. ld to help some- e Continued)
Nothing doing. Then the doc told | One else,
to try the Family Welfare} It was when he was talking
Bureau. got mad and said he |his visiting homemaker one da E Pon, oO
wasn’t looking for charity. The doc | that Bill foun the Family h B t h CG | b
told him to keep his shirt on—it me ‘are ae does a lot e la | 1S 0 Um lan
was about time he found out inds of helping ve in DAILY and WEEKLY -

he
lived in a city that kept a pool of

the workers

of in the
end industry.

e just “ of

rie collected by the
a 7

The idea of industrial cee That means ed a
und when that industrial |22d ready for crippled children
unionism is based on ve | and waiting for a ship, and
lustry, coal mi joys and girls just learning how
en excellent example where the | handle money, and little kids
United Mine Workers of America |Who might get TB and wives wh
bands have been away fighting
pit head to coal "The |£0r four or five years, and -
Metal age ieee eth -|dred other kinds of pei

n-
pecans Mine, Mill and Smelt-
kers is of a

lems eral throughout
but also og oeoems relative to

trial problems.

shoul
lus- | about

Id have made that crack

ie Community Chest to
someone else—not Bill.

Est. 1860
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