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Vancouver Trade Council will .
sponsor giant election forum

Vancouver,

Lower Mainland Trades and Labor Council is sponsoring a giant election

forum at Georgia Auditorium on September 12, at which leaders of the five political par-

ties are expected to attend and present their labor platforms.
Robert Strachan, CCF; and Nigel Morgan, LPP — have al-

— Arthur Laing, Liberal;

Three provincial leaders

ready accepted invitations, and the rally will probably be the largest in the current

election campaign.

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It is-the hope of labor that
the other two political leaders
—Premier W. A. C. Bennett,
Social Credit, and Deane Fin-
layson, Conservative — will
accept the invitations in per-
sen, because, says Lloyd Whal-
en, “labor wants to hear the
party positions straight from
the top.”

Whalen, president of the
VTLC, said this week that
some strong questions will be
thrown at all the political
leaders.

“At the top of the list will
be how the parties stand on
the use of court injunctions,”
he stated. “Under the present
system the injunction has be-
come a Vicious weapon against
labor. No sooner is there a
suggestion of a strike than
employers call in their law-
yers and win injunctions be-
fore the union knows anything

about them.”
In the federal elections in
1953 International Wood-

workers of America sponsored
an election forum which drew
4,000 people.

A - program handed to (

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The Canadian.:government has handed

opoly control of atomic power development 1%

try to a giant U.S. corporation controlled b

Morgan trust.

This is the meaning of the recent Ottawa
ment that, for a mere $2 million, the U.5.0W
adian General Electric has been given sole nig
atomic reactors in Canada for the next 10 ye
River atomic scientists are reported “‘angry ai

ed’ by the contract.

Details of the deal followed
2 report from Washington re-
yealing the tightening strangle-
hold American corporations
have on Canada’s manpower
and economic resources. Coupl-

Half family

incomes
inadequate

MONTREAL
More than half of Canadian
families with two children

have incomes below ai “modest

but adequate amount.”

This is the finding of a sur-
vey conducted by Research
Associates of Montreal, which
reports:

“The income of the average
Canadian family has increas-
ed since 1951, but for many
families it is still seriously be-
low the level required to pro-
vide an adequate standard of
living. This is the broad con-
clusion which comes .out of
a study of the incomes of non-
farm families in 1954 recent-
ly published by the Dominion
Bureau of Statistics.”

Adjusting for price increas-
es since 1951, the report fixes
the increase in average real
incomes at 11 percent from
1951 to 1954 — evidently not
enough.

Taking $2,500 a year “as a
rock-bottom minimum on
which a family can feed, house
and clothe itself nowadays,”
the research bureau listed this
proportion of families witha
1954 income below this figure:

Atlantic provinces — 49.3
Quebec — 27.6
Ontario — 15.3
Prairie provinces — 27.2
British Columbia — 22.7

Average of Canada — 248
The report estimates that
“the cost of a modest but ad-
equate budget for a family
with two children in Canadian
cities was around $5,000 in
1954,” and continues:
“Looking at the DBS figures
for the income distribution of
families with two or more
children, we see that the fol-
lowing proportions have less
than $4,000:
Percent
Families with 2 children - 53.6
Families with 3 childern - 59.5
Families with 4 or more - 65.1

ed with latest inte
leased by the Do
of Statistics, 4
show:

@ Some 300,000
have pulled up st@®
igrated to the US.
19 years. The @
movement has 1
since the end Of
World War and
aging 35,000 a Y<*

@ US. ownel
ada’s petroleum ™
climbed. from
1952 to 95 ‘perce!
In mining it has
70 to 75 percent
tacturing from 5
cent.

@ Of $19 bill
plant investment *
'n foreign coul
Canada _ tales
$6.5 billion, mor
of Latin Amer
highest target fof
on a world scale

Scientists at Cat
River atomic P#
tawa are report
ous over the Ge
deal. No Canad
ing plant was 4
ieaving the field
U.S. corporatio®
2on is GE's
wards the des
nuclear power
«emonstrator §
eral governme
Hyaro. ;

The entire sto!
before CCF and
bers of the Hous’
sitting on the
mittee, according,
onto Star’s Re
one of them P™
Taylor reports |
up a real cham
country over
tion.”

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operation, W
their technical
expense 0
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