___ FRIDAY, JANUARY ventrete aes onan | Oc Arms Race To Be : a Topic Of Meeting “The Arms Race or the Human Race” will be the sub-| ject of a public meeting to be held in the Queen Elizabeth Theatre on Thursday, February 9 at 8:30 p.m. Speakers will be John B. Witchell, former member of the bost in ; protest against the nuclear arms race, and Prof. Gordin Kaplan of Dalhousie University. Chairman of the meetiug, which is sponsored by the ‘C. Committee on Radiation Hazards, will be Doug askins, ° ween National Communist Party Appeal: Defence Research Board who recently resigned his! LESS MASS LO VICTORI A mass jobless March 6 to demand a This was decided Wednesday | afternoon. at q meeting of the newly-formed B.C. Federation of Unemployed. Many unions have already started their preparations for the mass lobby. Vancouver |IWA local 1-217 has. voted $500.. The last meeting of the Vancouver... Labor Council agreed to back the lobby. and is expected to vote $500 at its next meeting for which notice of motion has already been given. — Reports also have it that many other unions including | the Carpenters and Marine | Workers have started prepar- ations for the lobby. It has also been learned by the Pacific TTibune that the United Fish- ermen and Allied Worker’s Union are expected to send their annual mass lobby to Victoria around the same time as the unemployed lobby. } | ernment to do anything to ease the serious unemployment Y TO A MARCH 6 1,000 Expected to Demand ~ Work and Wages from Govt. lobby to Victoria in which 1,000 are ex- pected to take: part will converge on the Legislature in Victoria on ction on the critical unemployment situation. Failure of the Bennett gov-| official in charge of welfare in Hamilton told an unemploy- ed delegation that the mainten- ance of immigrants less than five years in the country is the responsibility of those who sponsored them, and that if re- lief is requested from the wel- fare authorities emergency re- lief will be issued to them, but they will be simultaneously reported for deportation. This cold-hearted and cal- (See JOBLESS, pg. 8) As plans for the mass actions are also planned -by These include the following: 1. On Monday, January 30, unemployed will gather at the Labor Temple on Broadway at 11 a.m. to march to the Social Assistance Administration | building on 8th Ave., near ‘Not too late to stop Columbiasellout to US” oe signing of the treaty it fen Canada and the Un- €d States for developing the olumbia ’ Rivers’) enormous ae Power, which gives Bea share to the USA, is = oe in a Jong series of be- ae oS of our national inter- is y both Liberal and Con- eek governments,” de- Rie. a statement issued last : by- the national execu- ‘ve committee of the Com- Munist Party, & ‘Thus is our country push- backward more and more © 8 position of colonial depen- «nce and inferiority,” the Statement goes. on, gece treaty continues the * e treacherous, anti-Canad- 2 policy of surrendering our te ous resources to the Un- ed States which - sabotaged © People’s demand for an all- aoe seaway and a pub- 4 - Owned and controlled “West natural gas pipeline. une Columbia is one of the oo richest sources of hy- 0-electric ' energy. That en- ergy developed in Canada. as part of a national power grid would provide the life blood for vast industrial expansion, providing many thousands of jobs for Canadians. But- the effect of the present plan is to provide storage facilities at our expense for the develop- ment of pewer for U.S. indus- tries, “Canadians must wonder why Prime Minister Diefenba- ker rushed to Washington last week in such indecent haste to sign the Columbia treaty with. a president who had then only three more days in office. Is he striving to shove through this sell-out before the Canadian people can learn the facts? “Tt is late, but not too late -to stop this. abject surrender. The Columbia. treaty requires ratification by © partliament. The Communist Party urges all patriotic Canadians to make their views known. to their. members of parliament demanding that they speak and vote against ratification.” crisis has aroused widespread| Granville St. to protest the indignation. Recent figures re-| 8°vernment’s policy of cutting leased by the Federal Depart- off payment of medical bills ment of Labor show that B.C.|f0r unemployed on social as- has the second highest rate of| Si8tance., The pickets will then unemployment, next to the’ proceed to city hall to protest Matitime mrowinced to city council and demand According to the report that payments be continued. Jobless rally, parade To Gity Hall, planned lobby get underway other the Vancouver and District Unemployed Council to draw attention to the plight of the unemployed and to demand immediate action. 2. On Tuesday, February 7, the Unemployed Council will hold a mass rally for unem. — ployed in the Pender Auditor- ium at 12:30 to hear a report from the B.C. Federation of ~ Unemployed executive on plans for the lobby and other | action. The unemployed will — then take part in a mass pare ade to city hall to get an answer from city council on the proposals made in .a brief by a delegation on January 10. out of work. In British. Colum- bia there are 638,000 or 10.9 per cent of the labor force out of work. These figures are gen- erally considered to be on the optimistic side and, serious as they are they do not fully re- flect the full unemployment picture. : Meanwhile it was reported this week that the Canadian Labor Congress is organizing a lobby of 1,000 trade unionists to Ottawa on Feb. 2 to press for support of its proposals to alleviate the present. critical unemployment situation: On~January 15 the Cana- dian Council of the’ United Auto Workers union at —its quarterly meeting pledged sup- port to the lobby and indicated at least 200 delegates from UAW locals would take part. It was also reported this week that destitute immigrant workers in Ontario are being told that if they apply for re- lief they will be deported. An there are 528,000 or 8.2 per Rane cent of Canada’s labor force) : : Members of Toronto’s Young Communist League are shown demonstrating Jan. 14 in front of the United States consulate against use of American planes in Laos to drop : bombs and rockets on troops loyal to neutralist govern- ment of Prince Souvanna Phouma.