B.C. LUMBER WORKER

- The Gover:
to accuse their sates of ee se

RS: Vee

DP une ees me the two old line parties

the present unemployment crisis
asa political football to further their own ends
is eee of more than a passing thought from
organized labor.

Piha still stinging from their defeat
inflicted at the polls by the Conservatives, are
now tia that Canada is on the verge of a
depre:

While no one can dispute the gravity of the
present situation, it is remarkable to hear the
Liberals taking such a pessimistic vi ‘he
pyencouver Sun, in, a sents editorial, stated ‘that

iberal criticism on
alpneds is for it Government to do
aouething positiv

This is ease men one considers _ Liberal
record during the pea eriod of
1954-55. At that iain Miter were not hesitant in
stating that the Government would not take any
ctio: ae deal with the rising unemployment in

he obvious face a of course, is that the
Liberals hope o make ‘ ‘political hay’’ at the
eapenee of the “Govermmane during the present

nment’s reply to these charges was
m. At me
same time, they i of t
trouble could ase ser a be anaes ae the oa
administra

To the hundreds of thousands of unemployed
across the countr me ne is not enough.
What they desire and need i: epee mpt action to
alleviate a dangerous situation.

This situation is growing more dangerous by

hour. nemployment this winter appears
ety i be the highest of any winter of the post-

Pe: = aps the Government could be excused in
appearing to be more interested in fixing blame,
ae than peering a solution, if none existed.
But one does e:

eatin He through the Canadian La-
bour Congress. Brief, submitted to the Govern-
ment last m ent offered a practical solution to

roblem. a

the p
The brief puggestet! relaxation of anti-infla-
tionary gs S as one method of cu:

met! rbing un.
The Congress also urged the release
ante tax reductions, and highe:
eoctals dcourity payments,

An accelerated housing programme was also
ould serve a two-fold purpose. It

urged. This w

would ease ihe unemployment among lumber
workers in zciah Columbia and a eee
trades across the t e time i

ntry.
would provide decent ease for some of ae

On thi. het AAT

“Good Reaatnts at prices ordinary. people can

afford, ought to be a prime objective of national
olicy. t itt promote productivity. It will
duce crime and delinquency. It will vide
useful employment, not only for io:
workers and for those who produce construction
materials, but also for those )

pply the

ction material
e soundest of nati seca
investments, both fot production and for
zenship.”’

If, as the Government claims, peu He the
opie peti is the i nea in the
labor force caused part!

A

creas ou:
their famil: ies?

ing for these extra workers dnd

who stated that the number
greater than in there corresponding
the immediate post-war eer
The number oe people he
mates Hae will igre
before the wines is over is ae 50,000.
This is an increa: tea ae se

from the _unemp

reached in Bebruary? 1955. "At ia
time hese ee 619, ; Beale
secking k acre ae

ures released by ¢ m-
“Eee Insurance Coamteniag
in Vancouver last week showed a
100% increase from last year in
the number of unemployed here
BC.

o-i

Cause of the unemployment rise,

Jobless Army
Size Doubles

Labour predictions of widespread unemployment
winter rie teen substantiated by a top Gov
of jobless in Canada

into the
pak hnny!” his mother exelaim-

“pont ‘t worry, ie it’s dead.
+_ | I cornered ny in the garage and
this | beat him until.

ernment official] Sudden!
now is | minister nike at him.

of any year sineg| “T beat him a beat him until
he was called away by God.”

months

RETIREMENT SECURITY;
FULL HEALTH SERVICES
LAGE a OBJECTIVE :

fe are, organized labor must d em-
pha: sis, on its long- Sipe objectives: adequate orate
and a national

health service

ee he new pena scale of $55 a month will not
apbas and soul alive in any Canadia:

can ha rdly Bee a respectable room for that sum today.

Certainly living quarters at reasonable rents are not

by the lack of j
Columbia, "Ontario, oucbeey and
arit

Organized labour disagrees
Government's estimate
unemployment

own

t, which can ta
traced rarely to the tight-money
pol

out Sat the potneey statis pave i
ahs ay tre!

tion, and voltenlie ot certain available except those few units built by some munici-
segments of the

an i Ee : ini os ae

d h is likely

t te $55, it
it by ne 875 aac is reached it will be

inadequate, “chasing - creditable pens: wn be thes
is like chasing the rainb:
the lines of the British Labor Party io, one that is

some measure tied in with a person’s carnage is
transferable from job to job and takes care of rising
living costs.

As for a proper health plan, labor has always favored
a comprehensive national health service. . The

surgical,

one federal —

This was pointed out in the un-

brief presented to the ‘Federal
ona last month.

t no action has been taken.
ee Taian has been expressed
that the Government might find

place the blame for the crisis at

the feet o!

rather than to seek a eobifon to
the p

British Columbia is concern,
over the mounting mass lay- at
particule in the Aeabering, 2
ing, and construction industri

sly ‘high ee 14,678

t included are per: en-
te ae, snemployment nef
ba hich is unkno’

sening

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