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S, FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1958
Vo thathorisea as second class mail by
(AG, No, 9 ost Office Department. Ottawa C
Se VANCOUVER, B.C.

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REPR
WOBLESS - THEN WA

Although most economists—and certainly all of Canada’s 850,000 registered jobless—
believe that the recession has reached a point where it may become a full-blown depression
unless Ottawa takes drastic action to bring about an economic recovery, Prime Minister John

Diefenbaker continues to “tinker” with the problem by presenting a hodge-podge of half-
baked plans. Decision to extend seasonal unemployment benefits for another six weeks, until
July 1, was described by a worker this week as “the Tory method of feeding a sugar-coated

Continued on back page—See UNEMPLOYED

‘obless lines grow longer,
help wanted’ lists shorter

yr Vancouver citizens may

have an opportunity to
see the much-discussed So-
viet TU-104 twin-jet air-
liner if the Soviet govern-
ment accepts an invitation
to send a plane for display
at the B.C. Centennial Air

Show, June 13 to 15. THe
TU-104, now in regular ser-
vice on Soviet air lines, has
been in this country only
once before—when it landed
in Labrador last September
bringing Soviet officials to
the U.N. In 1956 it was dis-
played at Zurich interna-
tional air show.

‘War against unions’

TORONTO—Management is
conducting a “vicious and
ruthless war to destroy union
organization” in Ontario,
spokesmen of the 400,000-
member Ontario Federation of
Labor told a select committee
of the Ontario Legislature.

N NEXT WEEK'S ISSUE

4OW CAN B.C. WAGE STRUGGLE BE WON?

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China halts

Japan trade

TOKYO — Suspension by
China of all trade with Japan
“because of Prime Minister
Nobusuke Kishi’s hostile atti-
tude toward China” has dealt
a shattering blow at the eco-

nomy of this country.

Decision to end trade rela-
tions resulted in a cancella-
tion of steel talks completing
final details of a five-year,
$280 million barter agreement
signed in Peking in February,

China has stopped issuing
import and export licenses to
Japan, and major Japanese
firms have been notified their
contracts are nullified.