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More Jobless,
Warn Unions

Sol ing was sow
of Lal ia
ployment is rapidly reaching
tate a disastrous depression n

ur ae Oavention recently that a

ie B.C. Federation

mass unem-

proportions ‘that will precipi-
iter, unless immediate

unded by

aptees mei

n who are now

nesritg the end of their entitl

Deleg: severely ons icized
Tesenale and Federal Govern-
ments for their pane te. initiate
m ale
in time or eee ott a a

to the cony:
in a month by month comparison
es ioe oer et eee th

aoe ae i: the onag outs ing

months last year by from thirty | a‘

to sixty per cent.

‘eport ee ee de-
pre} under in-

ment,
Octaber 20 aetended re peteieesteel ba
fro: affiliates of the Federa~

‘Gea

‘ment to

arias epeons se

@ Establishment a unem-
ployment committees in all un-
jons and meetings of all unem-
ployed’ to work through labor
councils.

Other employment - cre:
propose, peouey aes in ri
ree Work Act, were

ie ae ges under consiter=

tion Saige iio antes

work week permissible in BC.
40 hours; alias

imoonlighting? ——
a oljaieiistte nenviieerralbnte

The conference found that “dis- eae
astrous downswings and surges in| The unemployment report, pre-
the employment field and the sented to. dele legates by | Vietor or
Midgley, Carpen'
the resi the irresponsible | ca! ae. IWA INTERIOR ATE:
actions ae ee industriaists and | unemploy: in Ve left, jeorge renee Local ees Ler front
financiers of Can: tai ‘acts Ed, Timoth, Local 1-417; ‘hes Welder, Local “aaa; Sal as Local 1-423. Whilo in Vancouver they
The Fat comm They indicated that in
recommended. that “every "ifort mionthyof August: theres were 48
should be made to use all possible | 571 job-seekers in the Paci
media of pul Woe i phasize | gion, 64 per cent more than the
the seriousness situation | same mont! ye
and the detrimental clfect on the|ada the total was 357,687, up 45
whole community.” er cent the August 1957

(0 form a ee of action were
he following:
epeaals Adopted

(2) igid control # a
tion ‘inte the mbors ge mand ¢i
absorb new Canadi

Provision “of

money by Oltay

eae interest
a for pace cip al

iGren a) thoveroposals adopted |F

figure.
But Midgley added,
employed orker

anee un-

rn
main thougl

bes "inant “bligations and ‘that
an 0 be gainfully
Sve

or the unemployed, he said, will

housing,
construction projec

@ Institution = “Ottawa ofa
public oe program in B.C, im-
mediat

@ aly ceteeP et of Col-
bie iver the B.C.
ower Gunmen in c =

attract secondary

no longer accept “platitudes and
p z

Striving to break the news
gently to the wife of wa patient,
th

vii
can’t Here ine how

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