i i i | } IN RED TAPE 31 has_secret lists of Canadians STORY ON BACK PAGE Nig e794) ~ i ei Lidl sill Hy ceed Vol. 9, No. 5 : ~ Vancouver, British Columbia, February 3, 1950 : ee ae "Price e Tie here Abby MOY fe he 5 + ive Cents Wait weeks for UIC benefits | AMILIES GO HUNGRY TANGLE While jobless men and their families face privation and even starvation in Vancouver, burocratic public servants, entangled in red P. OSITIV me as tape at the Unemployment Insurance Commission’s new million-dollar a . S U PER BOMB building on -Robson Street, continue to exhibit mole-like speed in handling applications for insurance benefits. The supposed ‘‘nine-day.gap” between application for and receipt of benefits actually stretches from. three weeks to as high as ten weeks, officials of the Unemployed Action Assocation told the Pacific Tribune. Meanwhile families go hungry and men grow desperate. Excuses offered by the UIC that “‘staffs are inadequate to pro- cess the claims quickly enough” do not pacify hungry men who find themselves -unable to draw the cash benefits to which they have con- tributed while working and to which they are entitled. “Why don’t ae hire more people, share the work and speed the process?” is their reply. Callous indifference to the plight of the unemployed was strik- ingly revealed in a statement made this week. by Unemployment Insurance Commissioner C, A. L. Murchison in Winnipeg. Brushing aside the half-million jobless total figure in Canada as “‘not alarming’, the UIC spokesman declared that public works programs, urged by Continued on page 6 See? JOBLESS i § : : D d il STORY ON PAGE 7 INUIT TR Soviet nod to Vietnam upsets See story on page 7 This scene could be duplicated—only worse—in the heart of any Canadian city if the atom bomb is not banned and the warmakers in Washington and Ottawa not prevented from unleashing the horror. of atomic aggression, Picture shows: Hirosh!ma survivors at the memorial erected in the heart | pe hs a of that Japanese city after it had been atom-bombed by American strategists because it looked like ir ar an an especially good target to test the bomb as a weapon of terror for civilian populations. Inset ? headline shows the insane schemes the Ban the Bomb petition, circulated by the Canadian Peace Ceigress this month, is designed to prevent. “Our lives, our cities are at stake,” stress Congress officers, since it is obvious Cariada would be a battleground if war were permitted. ‘ STORY ON PAGE 6