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PRESSURE. NEEDED |

By WILLIAM

anything about it.
press treatment of the problem
shown in trade union ranks.

couver and elsewhere won't take much comfort from

omission.

This could suggest that the
government supports the view
put forward by Minister of
Transport Hees recently when
he declared that to talk about
growing unemployment would
be bad psychologically and
might bring on a recession, a
view widely held by those who
support the theories of the
British economist, Keynes. lf
one were to follow through on
this approach the best thing
to do is pretend the problem
does not exist. It reminds one
of the proverbial housewife
who kept the house clean by
placing the dust under the
carpet.

Obviously the government
needs quite a shaking up to
realize that unemployment is
a serious problem now and
will become increasingly So in
the winter, unless some meas-
ures are taken to check the
situation.

The Toronto and District
Labor Council was quite right
therefore at its last meeting
when it sounded a note of*
that unemployment
may reach the figure of 900,-
000 by winter and. in propos-
ing that the Canadian Labor
Congress urge the federal gav-
ernment to place the problem
of unemployment on the agen-
da of the forthcoming federal-
provincial conference.

This is a sound proposal and
ought to be pressed for
throughout the country.

Moreover there are a num-
ber of, things the government
can be impelled to undertake
without too much delay.

It promised to amend the
Unemployment Insurance Act
when it was appealing for
votes. There is nothing that
now stands in the way of this
being done while parliament
is in session, along the lines
proposed by the trade union
movement. There is no doubt
that substantially increased
benefits for 52 weeks for all
workers with the elimination
of the waiting period and meas-
ures to prevent evictions or
foreclosures on mortgages
would aid the unemployed.

But what the workers are
primarily concerned with is

November 1, 1957 —

TORONTO

The Speech from the Throne gave no outward eviden®
that the government is either concerned with the possibilitY
of large scale unemployment this winter or is prepared to 0
This contrasts rather strongly with

and particularly the concef

Workers in Windson, Vas
that

employment and governmel!
policies which would make
that possible. y

In the recent. period a num |

ber of proposals have
forthcoming, some of them
doubtful value. The rporot!”
Star for example has appeal
to citizens to help the une
ployed find work by unde
taking to “clean up and PF
up” and has likewise ull
the city to undertake so
projects of its own.

ited value but they fall fh) °

These may have mf

far short of what is act

needed. It is the federal 8”
ernment which has the re.

sibility for maintaining rah
employment” and it is the
which must be pressed to aiff :
those policies which will ih

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Ottawa must act on
rising unemployment

KASHTAN

that possible.

Apart from anything oy’
the government is presse? |
undertake; two are absoli) i
essential. The first is the

for policies which will 1).

stantially raise the purch'
power of the people. The’ .
ond is the need for poll
which will result in thé
velopment of mutually ad
tageous trade with all Y
tries in the world incl” n
stepped up assistance toh.
under-developed countii@ 1
the world, with no po!
strings attached.

To do either of thes? |
quires a policy of peace!
existence and, what 1 }

overdue, recognition of

ple’s China.

It would be well we}
trade union movement
auto. workers who piom)
in this before to re-e#
their anti-depression prot
in light of present ¢ }
trends and really step uP}
pressures on governmé

parliament.

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