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DEMAND BENEFITS

Jobless hold

FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1958

Communists gain
in bis election

SINKI—The
election to

munist

balance of

al
in Finland’s single-chamber parliament.
nd Social Democrats now have
the 200 seats divided between the Agrarians, Con-
r

Communists gained seven seats in this
equal the strength of the Social

The Com-
50 seats each, with the

servatives and smaller centrist groups.

Of the seven seats gained by
the Communists, five were

from the Agrarians, who

nated most of the
governments. The

post - war

Ten thousand march in

Agrarians will have 48 seats
in the new House.

The Social Democrats lost
four of the 54 seats they held
previously.

Nanaimo rally

NANAIMO, B.C. — Spe

LPP club last Saturday, Charles Caron, LPP provincial organizer, told his audience t LE
is necessary to understand the cause of the present unemployment crisis in order to det

the measures needed to fight

Caron cited the growing
public anxiety over increased
war preparations and _ the
costly tax burden that NATO
cold war policies imposes
upon the people. Together
with the cynical attitude of
Ottawa and Victoria towards
the unemployed and the big
business offensive against or-
ganized labor, these were con-
tributory factors in the pres-
ent unemployment crisis which
has thrown three quarters of a
million into the uncertainties
and worries of a jobless ex-
istence.

“The crisis in world capital-

London

to Communist independence rally

LONDON

Rank upon rank, six deep under myriad

blue and scarlet banners 10,000 marchers poured into Trafalgar
Square on Sunday, June 29, for the independence demon-
stration organized by the British Communist party. The march-

ers started leaving Hyde Park just after 2:30 p.m.

Nearly two

hours later they were still entering Trafalgar Square two miles

away.

a conservative esti-

mate put the crowd in the

square at over 15,000. There
were 10,000 marchers
John Gollan, Communist

secretary, told the
demonstration that in every
town and city in Britain the
Communist party was going
to organize great demonstra-

general

tions in support of a “real
socialist program” to avoid a

slump.

“We have been lied and
slandered about. We _ have
been denied the facilities given
to other political parties,” he
said. “But, despite all the pre-
judices and obstacles we have
had and.-will have to face, we
speak for what is unconquer-
able and incorruptible in the
British labor movement.”

He called for a campaign
for an emergency conference
union executives to

following program

of trade
adopt the
to avoid a slump:

@ Advances in wages for
all workers.

e@ A fight for alternative

orders, not from the shrink-
ing capitalist world market,
but from the socialist coun-
tries of. Europe and Asia.

@ Revival of the fight for
a 40-hour week — “increased
leisure for all, not the dole
for some.”

@ An end to the Tory eco-
nomic policy of restrictions
and reduced social service
spending.

@ Halving of military ex-
penditure and use of the
money to build houses, extend
houses, extend schools and give
the old age pensioners their
increased pension.

Frank Foulkes _ electrical
workers’ union leader who
was chairman of the rally,

called for the “dismissal from
these shores of those danger-
ous emissaries of destruction,
the American armed forces.”
He called for the united in-
dustrial and political strength
of the working class to force
governments to meet around
the negotiating. table.
shirt-sleeved and
Willie Galla-

Sunburnt,
cheerful as ever,

cher, former Communist MP,
received a tremendous recep-
tion.

Referring to protests over
the Hungarian executions,
Gallacher quoted a letter of
Robbie Burns, addressed to
those who allowed themselves,
as Gallacher said, “to be di-
verted by the rage of the
ruling class when millions of
lives hung in the balance.”

He had yet to hear expres-
sions of shock in the British
parliament at the fact that
“Britain’s bonnie babies were
in the front line of American
defense.”

Drought hits prairies hard

A new threat looms before
the faltering Canadian econ-
omy—drought on. the prairies.

Along with the drought
there has been heavy soil drift-
ing, and a severe infestation
of cut worms. A serious plague
of grass-hoppers is expected.

Not only are the crops sev-
erely affected. There is. de-
veloping a serious shortage
of fodder for livestock, which
may compel farmers to sell
large number of animals _ be-
fore they are ready for market
at a heavy loss.

Never was the need so ap-

aking to a rally of unemployed workers sponsored by Nanalttl :

its

ism,” said Caron, “is growing
because of its shrinking base
of operation, and the fact that
unable to resolve its prob-
lems of over-production in
the old way, that is by war,
because of the rising strength
and opposition of world peace
forces.

“The plans of the monopo-
lists are becoming quite
clear to thinking people: what-
ever hardships result from
the present crisis are to be
loaded onto the working class
and the farmers.”

Caron declared that the
failure of the Diefenbaker
government to provide jobs
and adequate unemployment
insurance to all those in need,
despite its pre-elections prom-
ises is “a good indicator”
that there is “a conspiricy be-
tween the monopolists and
government to break down the
standards won by organized
labor through lockouts, court
injunctions, government strike-
breaking, as seén in the Black
Ball Ferries dispute, and by
the deliberate promotion of
mass unemployment.”

Added to these restrictive
measures against labor, said
Caron, was the steady in-
crease in prices, caused by the
monopolies’ greed for profits,
which further cuts into the
’ living standards.
Caron declared that there
was an alternative to mon-
opoly - government policies
which breed economic crisis,
hardships and war — the al-

workers

parent for construction of the
South Saskatchewan River
dam which would guarantee a
stable supply of livestock feed
within the province, regard-
less of recurrent drought.

This is the moment that
Prime Minister Diefenbaker
has chosen to publicly unveil
the Tory government’s pro-
posal for building the dam.

His announcement confirms
that the Conservatives are
taking the same goughing ap-
proach towards the province
as the Liberals.

The dam has two aspects. It
will provide water to irrigate

July 11, 1958 —

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during the last federal oo |
tion, based: upon peace
with all countries and ©
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velopment projects at ha
which would provide jobs
all- able to work.
Caron cited
propositions whicl
through, would
improve the situation.
were: diplomatic recog
of and trade with China ne |
employment insurance "
fits to all regardless of cre
earned until jobs are ting
able; and a summit mee 4 <
between the U.S., Britain
the Soviet ‘Union to & a Yi
cold war, ease world te on |S
and free the channels © nent
mal trade and mutual # tals
ships between the ce the
and socialist sections % 4

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party can provide the la
alternative.” oe

The rally vnan My
adopted a resolution d&™ iw |%
ing that the Diefenbake iy |
ernment provide unemy i
ment insurance penefits obs

gardless of credits ut 10% M
can be found for all e™) Fh
able unemployed. te

hydro- -electric power: t the
erals always claimed * ati?
question of power geR© phe!

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500,000 acres. It will pr 7 a
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was up to the province “
demanded that Sasha ait a:
pay the full cost of powr” aft |e

stallations. The Torie®. a uP
making the same deman” eth | ty
with this difference. U2 re | ty
Liberals, they have bee?
pared to make grants owe I
tain provinces to pay io P uC? | te
sites. They have made ok “ih i
grants in New Brunsw3™ oy hy
Nova Scotia, where Tory pul
ernments are in powe? | ta
not Saskatchewan.

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