“Citizens of Cobourg! This is the Southern Ontario delegation of unemployed on our way to. Ottawa. Campbell of Welland made this announcement over a PA system re . Toronto and Ottawa, as a 1 cade in Ottawa. Following the lead and Catholic Confederation of Labor — the jobless ‘themselves, representing the problems of 600,- 000, took their case to Ottawa last week. In Ottawa, some 100 delegates from Toronto and Montreal, Ham- ilton and Sudbury, met at their market-place rendezvous, and then marched in a body, with their ban- ners whipping in the breeze up Rideau and Wellington streets, past the War Memorial and up to the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill. While delegation spokesmen ar- ‘ranged interviews with MPs, lead- ers of political parties and cabinet members, the main body of the delegation marched in a circle be- fore parliament’s entrance. Flash- bulbs popped and later the CBC- TV camera whirred to record the first major lobby of jobless since 1949-50. Before it was over a score of MPs had been visited and Labor Minister Gregg interviewed by a group of 15. Spokesman during the talk with Gregg was James Napier of the Hamilton CCL-affili- ated Union of Unemployed Work- ers, who presented an eight-point brief to the government. Gregg’s interview with the un- employed, unreported in the daily press, saw some heated exchanges with the minister according to those present. Here is a summary as the delegates reported back: JOB SITUATION: “A little worse than seasonal” was how Gregg put it to the unemployed—a change from earlier statements about its _ Simple seasonal or “frictional” character, ‘UNEMPLOYMENT. INSURANCE ACT CHANGES: Gregg turned down all proposals for upping bene- fits, extending them to those not covered or advancing the April 15 deadline for supplementary bene- fits. His argument: The Unemploy- ment Insurance Act is “still in the testing stage,” and that this was the first time it had been subjected to so much pressure as a result of unemployment. “Unfortunately,” he concluded, “we have decided there will be no consideration of any revisions in the Act until next fall.” “Next fall?” delegation mem- bers gasped in amazement. “What are we supposed to do in the meantime?” TRADE: An unemployed worker ‘from Montreal’s Canadian Vickers Plant made a strong impression with his plea for a return to his work as a builder of ships. The Montreal group put the case for trade with all lands. “What countries?” a CCF MP attending the interview asked. “Any country, but most particu-, larly that vast market in the Soviet Union, China and Eastern Europe. Anyone willing to buy our ships.” Gregg’s reply was to point out the government was not responsible for any failure of the Vickers plant to get shipbuilding contracts with the Soviet Union. Government poli- cy was not against restricting such orders, he said, with the exception of those involving strategic mater- ials. ‘ News about the delegation com- ing to Ottawa had preceded its ac- tual arrival. dozens of towns through Ontario radioed ahead as the 15-car motor- cade advanced on Ottawa. Arriv- ing at the outskirts of the capital the convoy was greeted by a city MI ee de Provincial police in| S-car convoy led by By Mark Frank _ Ottawa lobby tells government problems of 600,000 jobless OTTAWA Quiet-spoken Doug gularly to hundreds of citizens lining the main streets of towns betwee? a green panel control truck moved as a unit to the capital. Five more cars joined the motor of the country’s big trade union centres—Canadian Congress of Labor, Trades and Labor Congress of Canada. Squad car which provided escort to a centrally-located hall. One radio commentator during the day contrasted the brutal re- ceptions given jobless delegations during the thirties. ‘They were met then with machine-guns posted on Parliament Hill,” he said. It was at once a tribute to those his- toric treks of the past and today’s new authority of the labor move- ment in national affairs. There were the three hardrock Miners and warehouseman from Sudbury. They carried official let- ters from Sudbury’s Mayor Don Jessup and deputy-clerk L. N. Houck recommending the views of the Sudbury and District Unem- ployed Association to the attention of Prime Minister St. Laurent. The group had seen J. L. Gauthier (Lib., Nickel Belt). He told them how closely he agreed with all the proposals brought to Ottawa by the unemployed, but confessed that if he were to stand up in Commons and speak out for them it would be “political suicide.” A Hamilton group quizzed Tom Ross (Lib., Hamilton East). He re- plied: “I’m going with the party” and kept repeating things were “getting better” and he was not go- ing to do anything about it. Margaret Aitken (Con., Toronto York West) agreed she would speak on a number of points raised in the brief. A. H. Hollingworth (Lib., York Centre) and Lionel Conacher (Lib., Trinity) heard an impassioned story from an Italian immigrant whose baby was ill, paying $75 a month rent and just cut off insurance benefits. Other. recent immigrants, two from Scotland and a large group from Malta, told how they had been given exaggerated informa- tion about job opportunities in Canada, carried in newspapers abroad. There were dozens of others who told their story to MPs and the press. . Most of them were young, able and willing to work, reject- ing the idea of “hand-outs,” ‘de- termined to win lasting employ- ment, instead. Peace Council film seized by city police A Chinese documentary film, The Huai River Must Be Harnessed, was seized by city police last Sat- urday night while it was being shown at Pender Auditorium by B.C. Peace Council. — t Two detectives and Film Censor Ray W. McDonald interrupted the showing after one of two reels had been run on the grounds that the film had not been censored. McDonald told reporters that con- tent of the film, which he describ- ed as a travelogue, was not at issue. -Ray Gardner, chairman of B.C. Peace Council, issued the following statement on the seizure: “The film depicts the building of a flood control and irrigation project in China.* It was shown by us—as films from many countries, including Britain, France and the to give Canadians a glimpse of life in another land. ee “The showing was planned as a private one, with admission by in- vitation only, and so we did not think it necessary to submit the film for censorship. 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Speaking no English and wor- ried by this total absence of atten- tion, Koulis got out of bed and left the hospital. In. Vancouver the doctor in charge of the Marine Clinic sent Koulis to see another doctor under whose ‘supervision Koulis was ad- mitted to St. Paul’s Hospital for one week’s treatment. At the end of a week Koulis was discharged, but certainly not “cured.” Further medical attention and opinion showed that to save Koulis’ injured eye—and perhaps the sight of the other one—an immediate operation was necessary. Then the real buck-passing began, showing how little concern profit-hungry shipowners hold for an injured sea- man. Paid off from his own ship, his clothing seized, agents of the Sea- board Company tried to ship Koulis out on another Greek “tramp” freighter, which not only carried no medical personnel, but might be six months or a year before reach- ing a home port. And Koulis need- |ed an immediate operation to sav® his sight. . The skipper of the loannis Goul- andris and company officials tt to represent Koulis as “malinge! ing” when all he sought was the operation specified by medical OP” inion, either here or in Greece. _A delegation consisting of Wi liam White, president of the Marine Workers Union, Vic Forster, secte- tary of Vancouver Labor Coune : (CCL), and Paul Apsouris, manag, er of Pall Mall Cafe, interview: Seaboard Shipping Company or half of Koulis. The company nothing to say” and referred the delegation to its legal counsel. 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