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Unemployed demand cash aid from council

A delegation from the Vancouver Unemployed Ac-
tion Association was kept waiting “‘at the end of the line”
Tuesday afternoon at city hall while finance committee
heard a flood of requests for civic gtants from better-
dressed delegations supporting various “‘worthy causes’.
By the time the NPA city fathers were ready to lend an
tar to the jobless representatives, they were in no mood to
accede to a request for cash aid to destitute unemployed.

Among the organizations trying to put the bite on
city council were Junior Chamber of Commerce, Health
League of Canada, Society for Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals, and Vancouver Horticultural Society.

When aldermen get down to business of allocating
funds, it is to be hoped that they will keep a sense of
Proportion, Financing a convention dinner for a Junior

Chamber of Commerce convention is not as important as
feeding hungry workers who are unemployed.

“We'll fight’ - Murphy

Branding the decision of Trail Local 480 executive
to switch from the International Union of Mine, Mill
and Smelter Workers to the United Steel Workers “as
the act of traitors to the workers’ interests,” Harvey
Murphy, Mine-Mill regional director, had this to say
at press time:

“We shall hold our certification. We shall honor
our agiteements, And we are going into Trail to con-
sult with our members as to their real wishes. We in-
tend to fight this thing through.”

Murphy declared the decision to switch from Mine-
Mill to the raiding Steelworkers was reached by the
local executive in secret meeting without reference to
the membership.

Vancouver’s 40,000 unemployed are well aware that
every concession they win from city, provincial and federal
authorities will be the result of struggle. Meeting in Pen-
der Auditorium on Tuesday, UAA members heard Fred
Collins report on organization of unemployed in Nanaimo,
Port Alberni, Ladysmith and Victoria, and applauded
when he told them: ““When our mass lobby descends on
the government at Victoria next month, delegations from
these and other Island points will be right there with us.”

Guest speaker Harvey Murphy said bluntly: “Don’t
be ashamed of the fact that you are unemployed. Make the

governments—civic, provincial and federal—ashamed that
unemployment exists!””

A campaign to raise moral and financial support for
the mass lobby.to Victoria in a month’s time is now under
way, and the Unemployed Action Association is appealing
to all progressive organizations for funds.