Ask action on jobless Vancouver Labor Council (CCF) called on municipal, provincial and federal governments to “face up to the realities of the unemployment situation instead of buck-passing” in a special executive resolution unanimously endorsed by dele- gates Tuesday this week. Warning —_ that wide unemployment conference. The resolution also asked that an unemployment committee set up by the CCL and TLC labor councils last year be reconvened, to sponsor a special parley of MPs, MLAs and representatives of other organizations to study the jobless crisis. unemployment will be worse this winter than at any time since the 1930’s, the re- solution urged the Social Credit government to convene a province- Ford strikers seek national labor support (above). [ gates at the huge plants. When close to 6,000 Windsor Ford workers hit the bricks October 10 they were soon followed bv 2.700 Oakville workers All Ford overations are aft a standstill as pickets patrol United Automobile Workers Union is seeking the early setting up of a national strike support committee recently endorsed by the CCL convention. x “It will take the full | moral and financial backing of the Canadian labor movement to break Ford loose from the ‘no waqe increase’ front. of the Cana- dian Manufacturers’ Association,” savs George Burt. Canadian director of the UAWA. Socred meet sidesteps fundamental issues By NIGEL MORGAN : The Social Credit provincial convention in Vancouver last weekend, no less than the recent actions of the Bennett government, establishes the fact that the Social Credit party in B.C. has entered a new stage of develonment. The close identity of leading government spokesmen with U.S. and B.C. monopoly interests is apparent in the government’s readiness to give away Columbia power resources to Kaiser Aluminum and in its shunting of appeals against the B.C. Electric fare boost from the cabinet to the Court of Appeal. From being a predominantly middle-class expression of revolt against the anti- labor, anti-Canadian policies of monopoly, it is\ being transformed into an instrument of those same interests, facilitating the plundering of B.C. resources by the Yankee trusts. Striking proof of this was shown in the way resolutions sent in by progressive, genuinely reform- minded elements of the rank-and- file membership were handled at the Socred convention. With the exception of an appeal to the gov- ernment urging direct assistance in building a natural gas pipeline to the Coast, every resolution which hit at the privileged position of big business and might have been embarrassing to the top leader- ship, was either “withdrawn,” “tabled” or “defeated.” The resolution calling for a gov- ernment investigation into the B.C. surance, on the decisive questions of policy the Bennett administra- tion is betraying the people it was elected to serve. Premier Bennett’s acknowledg- ment that “many unemployed will walk the streets of our province this year” merely emphasizes his government’s lack of action to per suade the federal government to recognize China and develop trad- ing relations with a market vital to development of B.C. industry. His boast to the convention that he will wipe out the provincial debt of $139 million by 1962 will Electric rate structure and the ac- tions of the Public Utilities‘ Com- mission was simply “dropped.” This action on an issue which so! vitally affects half the province’s be empty if his government does no more than it has to meet the {mounting economic crisis. Although Premier Bennett com- plained that Social Credit had population, indicates why repeated. more members than all other par- charges are heard that the govern- ties combined, a drop of 20,000 ment is preparing to turn back members since 1953 was reported. electrical distribution on northern Vancouver Island to the B.C. Elec- ' Hundreds of ex- Conservatives -whose wholesale desertion of their tric — the reason given for the party has led them to seek a new recent resignation of one of the| base of Tory activity in Social government’s own appointees to €redit, are helping to consolidate | the B.C. Power Commission, and | the control of the reactionary top the only explanation for a new submarine power cable to the Is- land of the size projected. Resolutions calling for a long- overdue reorganization of provin- cial constituencies and for legaliza- tion of lotteries were “withdrawn.” _A resolution demanding wage standards for civil servants equiv- alent to those paid in industry was “tabled.” Instead an_ ir- responsible resolution was adopt- ed casting reflection on the integ- rity of the 9,000 people who con- duct the government’s business. * * * The convention was an expres- sion of what many disillusioned supporters are beginning to see: while granting some minor con cessions to popular opinion in such matters as taxation of B.C. logging and mining companies, limited bar- ter trade deals with Britain, edu- cational finance and hospital in- leadership. The resolutions to the conven- tion, and its way of disposing of them, reflects the growing cleav age between the top leadership and many thousands of reform- minded people who voted for Social Credit in the belief they were voting for a change. -There is no doubt that they are still striving for that change — the character of many of the resolu- tions submitted to the convention showed that — and will increas- ingly seek it through support of policies at direct variance with those of their government leaders. S. H. BROWN PLUMBING & HEATING 371 Johnson Road R.R.1 White Rock - Phone 5661 REAL ESTATE TO BUY SELL EXCHANGE Call MARSHALL JOHNSON GLen. 1891-R EM. 2167 CAMBIE REALTY LTD. Member Co-op Listing Bureau Vaneouver Real Estate Board PACIFIC ROOFING Company Limited CE. 2733 2014 West 4th N. Bitz - B. Kostyk Pulp workers ask U.S. wage level OCEAN FALLS, B.C. A call for wage parity between pulp and paper workers in B.C. and the United States has been made by the United Worker, voice of Pulp and Sulphite and Paper Makers locals here, on the eve of a coast-wide conference of Pulp and Sulphite locals to set wage policy for the coming negotiations. “We should have full parity of wages with the workers in the pulp and paper mills on the Paci- fie coast of the U.S.,” the editorial says. “It is unfair to the workers in B.C. who more and’ more begin to feel that having been freed from British colonialism, they are now subject to American colonialism.” The Pulp Workers’ journal points out that raw materials are cheaper in B.C. and closer at hand and that wages are lower. Yet the products of B.C. mills are sold in the U.S. market at the same prices as U.S-produced goods. . CAMILLE DIONNE Good vote for Montreal league MONTREAL Camille Dionne, Civic Reform League candidate, polled 2,695 votes in his first bid for the mayor- alty post vacated by Camillien Houde, who retired because of ill health after serving as mavor for 18 years. Dionne and seven other Civic Reform council candidates polled a total of more than 11,000 votes in Monday’s elections. Jean Drapeau, 38-year-old law- yer who ran on the Civic Action League ticket, won the mayoralty race in a landslide victory, polling 76,188 votes. Picket lines at five canneries Picket lines were thrown around five plants of Canadian Canners (Western) Ltd. this week and Unit ed Packinghouse Workers of Am erica (CIO-CCL) has announced @ nation-wide boycott of the firm’s products. The company, in a last-minute move to stall strike action, offered to bring in an official from its headquarters plant in Hamilton, Ontario. Rejecting the offer, union repre sentative Bill Symington pointed out that negotiations had dragged on for nine months. “The com pany had plenty of time to bring in officials from Hamilton,’ hé said. In addition to picketting plants; the union will picket anv stores and warehouses found to be hand ling the firm’s goods. O’Brien granted bail Bail has been set at $2000 for Daniel O’Brien, former union bush ness agent, who was sentenced last fall to five years, on a kidnap col spiracy charge. Counsel John Stanton won O’Brien a new trial and the decision has been upheld by the Supreme Court of Canada on an appeal by the Crown. Date for the new hearing has not bee? named. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING — NOTICES POSTAGE STAMPS wanted. Don-® ate your used postage stamps, any country, including Canada, particularly values above 5c and perforated OHMS or overprinted OHMS or G. Stamps should not be torn or mutilated and are best left on paper, with perfor- ations not cut into in trimming. 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