Civic workers’ future linked to new trade policy Steady employment for Vancouver scrapping of the Marshall plan, i to program of planned public works services for a rapidly growing city. — in Prepare for peace meet —TORONTO. “At least 15 Canadians are plan- Cae ning to attend the Continental oe : Peace Congress which opens in Mexico City on September 5. Some will represent trade unions, church organizations, youth groups and local. peace councils, and others will make the trip as observers. To raise finances to sponsor Ca- nadian Peace Congress delegates, | a collection card in the form of a travel book to Mexico has been issued and is being enthusiastically -received, according to Mary Jen- nison, national secretary. Prominent Canadians are adding their names to the list of Canadian sponsors of the Continental Con- gress call. “I gladly consent to be a sponsor and wish. the Peace Congress in Mexico every success,” writes Ma- jor W. M. Jones of Welland. Major Jones is a distinguished Second World War veteran who fought with the Yugoslav guerillas. Boris Berlin, distinguished com- poser and musician, and Lorne Powers, vice-president of Local 200, United Auto’ Workers, have alsa agreed to sponsor the call. Vancouver is planning to send several delegates and observers to This is the conclusion reached by the LPP Civic Workers club, which this week dealt with the threat of economic crisis in its reg- ular monthly open letter to all civic workers. The club has been issuing* the newsletter two years, for “Many civic workers remember the last depression, when civic staffs were cut té the bone,” says the bulletin, “About 80 percent of British Columbia’s products are export- ed. What happens to a city like Vancbuver when markets are lost and general unemployment prevails? Civic revenue from tax- ation and license fees declines with the decline in trade... next cdmes skeleton staffs, low wages, unemployment and miserable re- lief. “It is the policy of the St. Laur- ent government that is leading us to depression; the policy of sub- ordinating our foreign trade to that of the United States, and dealing only for dollars, is leading us to ruin, “What Canada needs is an inde- pendent foreign policy, so that our products can be sold, bartered or exchanged wherever they are need- civic workers depends upon which is already having a ruinous ef- fect on British Columbia’s economy, and upon implementation of a Vancouver to provide necessary | | Revere Beach, Mass., and her family at a Up in the air over sky-high rents Kissing her four-year-old daughter Sharon, Mrs. Jean Ellis prepares to climb a ladder 4 to perch 50 feet in the air on her cove fhat she. won’t leave it until some landlord hears of her controls next March, perhaps earlier, up in the air too—or out on the street if they can’t meet them. red platform (right). She has d plight and offers an apartment for t rental she can afford. If the Camadian government is allowed to end ren rents will go sky-high and a lot of working people will be t a Mine-Mill - Union after a The disastrous lockout “ghost town” record of gold and silver produc- tion exceeding $60 million since 1919 and dhas been -B.C.’s greatest ed in this world. The United States wants us to deal only with those countries where the governments | are acceptable to the U.S. state department, and where the trans- actions are acceptable to the American monopolies. “This, basically, i¢ what is- rush- ing us into another depression, or war. This is the policy that all civic workers, along with all work- the Continental Peace Congress. , Vancouver Women’s Commit- tee for Peace Action is calling a conference of women’s organiza- tions to discuss sending a dele- gate. The meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Effie Jones, 50383 Sherbrooke, at 8 pm. Aug- ust 8. : Vancouver that will provide all city.” ers, Must fight against. “To maintain a continuity of employment for civic workers, we must first oppose the Marshall plan, and secondly, fight for a pro- gram of planned public works in the necessary services and public gold producer. Following a conference between the mine management and union representatives this week an agree- ment was reached ‘to end the lock- out and resume work on the same wage scale as before, on the un- derstanding that when operations are fully restored discussions will resume regarding a new wage agreement. Both parties appeared before the Labor Relations Board in Vancou- ver, where the union made it clear that it would fight the company’s second application for Mine-Mill amenities for a rapidly growing CLASSIFIED ~— A charge of 50 cents for each insertion of five lines or less with 10 cents for each additional line %% made for notices appearing in this column. 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Dance every Saturday night. Modern and 4 Another WHAT’S DOING? one of those things! WHAT THINGS? Why , Smor- gasbord at 4 West 1ith Ave., Sunday , July 31 from 3.00 p.m. Swedish-Finnish Workers’ Club meets last’ Friday every month at 7.30 p.m., in Clinton Hall. Old-Time. Viking’s Orchestra. on and on and on, Food ’n fun Hall is available for rent, ‘nevr’thin’. Auspices Victory HAstings 3277. Square Club. MEETINGS— OPEN AIR DANCING AT SWE- dish Park every Saturday night. Dancing from 9-12. Arne John- son's Orchestra. ~ decertification. ployees return to work at any time the mine reopens on the conditions prevailing at the time of the lock- out, commence for a new agreement,” The union’s western regional director, Harvey Murphy, stated that it was not the union which had caused the strike, but the company which had shut the mine down. “We are willing to have the em- providing negotiations will 720 W. 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Silbak-Premier has declared Murphy. “A great deal of unnecessary suffering has been caused to the community and cer- tainly this shutdown was a costly affair to the company and to the workers involved.” Agreement was reached between the company and the union after further informal discussions, and preliminary ework will begin at once to get the mine back in Op- eration. When rehabilitation work is complete, the full crew of un- 18 derground and surface worke will be hired. There will be no discriminati® against former employees and Hy ternational Union of Mine and Smelter Workers’ local unio? at Premier is still the certified bargaining agent under the pre vincial ICA act. sane Only concession made by yan ion was the dropping of a prev demand for retroactive pay: bee ‘GOODBYE RESOURCES,’ SAYS CCF’er ’ CCF policy on natural When Resources that “we ourselves woul why I joined the CCF.” Saskatchewan oil resources, he said. “I don’t want to come it. By that tim Delegate MclIsaac added: resources to the lions?” The convention chairma Amid a confusion of voices “ayes” to a “There you Oil leases assailed | Minister Brocklebank presented the rd tion on natura] resources, delegate Conroy of North Battlefo cy when already all available land has iS, oil companies?” Brocklebank tried to & To this, Conroy replied that he was under the impressio? ¥ d explore our natural resources. Th®' He stressed the danger of giving 2 “Oil now and uranium shortly © uranium will be gone too.” “Why should we hand over i i Imperial Oil company for them to make n hurriedly closed off the dissenting and agreeing, he accepted ef . SASKATOON ‘ resolU- 5 y back next 3 year and rediscus debate. FUELS EAST END TAXIS UNION DRIVERS HA. 0334 Fully Insured