cram Si seeds fe Fos a The first fellow we talked to was a young man in his twenties who was hanging around Central City Mission. He hadn’t worked all last winter and spring, found a few weeks work in the sum- mer and then had been job- less since September. So now he was broke, hungry and dirty. “I eat what I can pick up around town,” he told us. “If a job was to come along - I wouldn’t get it, looking the way I do and my clothes in th shape they are in. Do I Sleep at the Mission? Hell, it Ant TED HARRIS 757 East Hastings St. Vancouver 4, B.C. Painters’ and Paperhangers’ Supplies ; Sunworthy Wallpaper Reg. 45¢ - Now 19¢ a roll ; NEW LOCATION DOWNTOWN 590 WEST GEORGIA Vancouver, B.C. a PHONE MU 5-5014 Castle Jewelers Watchmaker and Jewelers Special Dis- jgpseycees count to all # Tribune Read- #f ers. 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And when one does, they told us, a man from the Unemployment Insurance Commission is stationed close by to note the truck’s license number for checking purposes later — just to make sure that if a guy is collecting insur- ance and gets a temporary job, he puts down his earnings for deduction purposes. One thing impressed us when we talked to the unemployed workers. And that is, that every single one of them blamed the capitalist system. “What can you expect, they don’t care about us.” “It’s the government’s fault. They keep telling us everything is fine, there’s no unemployment crisis, but I haven’t worked for months.” “The working man has a choice of staying here and maybe not working for months} or going to Rus- Siasate These were some of the comments we heard. Everyone knew who to blame, but at the same time they all felt helpless and demoralized. Over and over again we heard: “But - what can you do?’ In discussing our experiences ' at a meeting of the Socialist Youth League we agreed that the organization should speed preparations for presenting our SYL brief to the legislature, demanding full employment insurance benefits for all job- less until such time as work is obtained. We are also call- ing for free trades training for all young people laid off their jobs; and trade with all coun- tries, to create jobs for Cana- dians, _ We also desided to give out leaflets at the Unemployment Insurance Commission and other places where the unem- ployed gather, to encourage them to organize and fight for jobs, and to press their need for benefits until jobs are available. We're not. doing this for “charity” reasons, Unemploy- "We visited the soup kitchen lines to see what future holds for By ALF CORDONI and ED GAVORCHIN ; We'd been talking a lot in the Socialist Youth Lea could be done about it and how many and how many had families to unemployment insurance benefits? talk to a few of the young fellows After all, it could happen to us. us” gue about unemployment and what - of the unemployed were young fellows like ourselves support and what did the people do when they got cut off At the moment. But we decided to around the soup kitchen circuit. Kind of a preview like. * ment is growing. It could hap- pen to us. Or to you. There- fore it’s the concern of all, Doukhobors condemn new raids on children “Who gave you the right to break ap homes by sending armed RCMP officers to round up, like rabbits, innocent and defenseless little children to. place them under state custody and state control?” i This question was addressed sto Premier W. A. C. Bennett in a letter from Doukhobor spokesman Joseph Podovinikov following renewal of a govern_ ment campaign to force child- ren of Sons of Freedom par- ents to attend public schools. In police raids several child- ren have been seized and sent to New Denver, the schoo] which Doukhobors call “a con. centration camp.” ; Copies of the letter, said Podovinikov, have been for- ° ward€d to Prime Minister Die- fenbaker and to Queen Eliza- beth. --Wage contract demands for 1959 adopted by Local 1-217 of the International Wooa- - workers of America, and which will be presented for discussion and adoption at the coming B.C. District IWA con- vention here on February 9, include the following: @ A general wage hike of 25 percent. © A 32-hour week in the lumber industry. @A 50-50 premium levy on union and management for MSA, é ® Eight paid statutory holi- days each year in place of the present seven. The big 6,000-member local was unanimous in its adop- tion of these 1959 contract de- mands. In the opinion of many IWA members the new Syd Thompson leadership in the local is faced with “taking in the slack” left by. the Lloyd Whalen leadership through its inability to secure any wage gains in 1958, despite steadily rising living costs and high company profits. (During the last quarter of 1958 MacMillan- Bloedel chalked up a net profit cf over $8 millions). Meanwhile the southern interior woodworkers was settled this week, for a reported increase of 16 cents Big pay hike sough | by IWA Local 217 strike of an hour over two years. ent base rate is $1.53 an At Pacific Tribune x time results of a vote by mem bears on the new contract not been announced, _ neither the operators or officials would state exac what the terms were. 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