Ad Mn ti LL a Lat AU V i amare acilic VOL. 19, NO. 35 Phone MUtual 5-5288 250 Authorized as second class mail by the Post O1tice Department, Ottawa. 10° VANCOUVER, B.C. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1960 Fight for peace says (P Labor Day message Labor should take the fight for peace into its own Strong hands, says a Labor Day statement issued this Week by the National Executive Committee of the Communist Party. next of the statement fol- OWs: “The Communist Party aoe the working people of oe on this’ Labor Day. of ios have confidence that of aes men and women chal 1S country can meet the ‘ ‘€nge of the coming year °vided they are clear on ne Objectives and stand itedly together. . ‘All through this year, in a ee time of rising production, un- employment has been consis- tently higher than in the depths of the last recession in 1958. And it has worsened in the midst of the summer sea- son, There may well be over a million workers’ without jobs next winter. The threat of evictions and foreclosures confronts thousands of work- See LABOR DAY Continued on page 3 | MOTHER, 3 CHILDREN EVICTED Mrs. Martha Benekritis, age 44 and her three child- IS TIM BUCK TELLS ELECTION RALLY | There will be one million unemployed in Canada by January unless action is taken now, said Tim Buck, national leader, Com- unis Party of Canada, at a Trail election rally this week. He said unemployment is the paramount issue in the Septem- ber 12 election. | Underlying the importance ‘of Buck’s warning was the an- nouncement from Ottawa last | Week that there had been an ' unusual mid-summer hike in | the number of unemployed, in- dicating a very serious trend. The Dominion Bureau of Sta- tistics reported that on July 23 there were 311,000 jobless and that 4.7 per cent of the labor. force was out of work. The Bureau also reported that this was an increase of 83,000 over last July. The figures periodically. re- leased by the Dominion of Sta- tistics are considered among economists and trade unionists to be much .below the actual unemployment picture. Wednesday of this week the Unemployment Insurance Com- mision announced there were 46,301 registered for work in B.C. which is 30 percent high- er than the figure for last year at the same time. | However, the Commission’s figures do not include thous- ands who have used up bene- fits and are not registered, thousands more who do not qualify under unemployment insurance, and many who have a TIM BUCK ... Speaks at a giant election rally, Pender Auditorium, Friday, September 9 at 8 p.m, been forced on social assist~ ance. Nor does it include many thousands in B.C. who have been put on part time work, The B.C. Federation of Labor estimates that the figure in B.C. is closer o 70,000. There is growing concern in many circles over signs of sere ious economic crisis. In the July issue of Canadian Busi< ness, organ of the Canadian ‘Chamber of Commerce, Dr. D. E. Armstrong, a leading econs omist wrote: ‘“‘There are sever- al very ominous signs that this may be the worst post-war re« cession yet.” Tim Buck and B.C. Provin« cial leader Nigel Morgan told the Trail meeting that the Communist Party proposes a crash program to provide jobs which will open trade with all countries including China, ex- tend long-term credits to un- derdeveloped countries, and launch a larg-scale works pro- gram in Canada to be paid for by a cut back in arms-spend. ing. Ten aged 12-10 and 8 were unceremoniously dumped onto the rain swept streets of Vancouver, furniture and all, on Tuesday of this week. = Their crime—Mrs. Benekritis, whose husband. has eft her, has no means of support and was unable to ep up her mortgage payments. : __As the Pacific Tribune goes to press the woman and er three children are in an auto court paid up until noon Aug. 31. After that what? The ends of justice have been served. The mortgage ‘ompany has got “its property” back. The ingratiating eels of charity must now grind to prevent this Woman and her children from exposure and starvation. te ; : Jobless lines lengthen all across Canada. We face a grim prospect of more than a million unemployed this winter. B.C. is particularly hard hit with mass unemployment in mid-summer.