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Price Five Gents

No more De cocina’

Vancouver s ay hall on’ Waly this week
celles the days of the Hungry Thirties when a mass
delegation of over 200 unemployed workers and trade
union supporters placed the demands of the Unemployed
Action Committee before’ Mayor Charles Thompson.
- A |2-man committee of the big delegation, consisting
of William Stewart’ of the Marine Workers’ Union, E;
Leary of the Fur Workers, WIUC organizer John

This map, reproduced from the Soviet magazine,

Tekhnika Molodyozhi for March, 1949, depicts the great

_ Soviet atomic project now under way in the USSR by

which the course of rivers is being changed and the
climate of huge areas changed. What Canada could do
lication of atomic energy

with a similar peaceful app
is outlined by Leslie Morris in an article on pages 45.

JOBLESS DEMAND CITY
ACT ON WORKS PLAN

McCuish, Maurice Rush, LPP provincial organizer, and
other prominent representatives of workers’ organizations
placed the demands of the Unemployed Action Com-
mittee before the mayor.

These included: |

@ Cash relief for all unemployed workers not re-
ceiving unemployment insurance until a public works pro-
gram is started.

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@ Pending a public works program, those now
drawing unemployment insurance to stay on benefits after
their credit has terminated.

© Endorsation of the trade umon deanna for a

50 percent increase in. unemployment insurance rates.
é Opposition to the setting up of soup kitchens by
“‘charity’” organizations.
(Continued on Back Page)
See JOBLESS

! Cold ae bringing
crisis to Okanagan

Because the St. Laurent government refuses to abandon the cold war
policies which are cutting the country off from its ‘potential customers,
Okanagan fruit growers, dependent on export: markets for much of their
crop, are being told to cut their production.

This was the gloomy advice brought back from Ottawa, where he went
to confer with the department of agriculture officials, by A. K. seas
(president and general manager of B.C. Tree Fruits.

In a speech here, Lloyd admitted that the ,0.S. was now the only main
market left for Okanagan apples_and there they must sell in stiff compe-
tion with American apples. American apples, subsidized at $1.25 a ‘pox,
are cutting into Canada’s former overseas markets. Britain, hitherto
the Okanagan’s best customer, is now taking little more than “token”
shipments because of the “dollar crisis”, although the demand is as great
as it ever was.

Lloyd said nothing -about the prospects of barter trade with Britain
and other countries but did state that prospects of developing Brazil as a
market were dimmed because trade could only be on a barter basis and
B.C. Tree Fruits “cannot take the chance of being unable to dispose of
Brazil’s cocoa butter peaacia in exchange for apples.”

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