A CHARTER OF LABOR'S RIGHTS

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a gainful employment and the guarantee of
ve and progressively rising annual income, a

y Shortened work-week and security in

My right to peaceful assembly, and. to strike

eet the jobs of striking workers. Any-

Bid this is inconceivable and unacceptable
indeed to our society;

; peensult dnd to negotiate with management

Tou east the trade unions on all matters

eS are it technological changes before such

Bthe. ce toduced: (Employers’ opposition to this

Bide ntre-piece of the present attack upon
On rights);

to stri .

tnke during the term of a collective agree-

ons cannot resolve matters in dispute
Covered by such an agreement;

Ght to
land gtke all measures necessary to protect the

, "ealth of workers on the job, including strike

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tion, eae with management in the planning of

Md trom t the right to share fully in the benefits

tj echnological changes, rationalization of
@ automation ;

ul jobe tt higher education and proper train-
~ #988 while receiving an adequate income at

Somfortable and secure retirement. —

in Italy.

ing lots for private homes.”

not even recognize housing aS a
priority task.
So it is that the lines are

mited’ drawn. The power structure in
on the city from Stelco, Dofasco,
evident Firestone, Hoover, Wallace Bar-
nes, Harvester Otis, Canadian

Westinghouse, the Life Insur-

William Stewart was raised
in Hamilton Mountain. He re-
ceived his education there and
worked in the steel and textile
industries before going over-
seas. He was wounded in action

Following the war Stewart was
National Secretary of the Fede-
ration of Democratic Youth and
later worked as an organizer in
the textile and electrical work-
ers’ unions. He is presently the
Business Manager of the Cana-
dian Tribune. William Stewart
is married, 48 years of age and

has five children.
S Who vic;
r er Ex The Annual Report of the
avillion wort Hamilton Labor Council estima-
and e Poe tes that several thousand hous-
the a Orate ing units in Hamilton are sub-
Riven . joys. standard and at least one thou-
as a spe- ‘sand are unfit for human habi-

tation’ They express “deep con-
cern about the lack of public
housing for people in the low
income brackets and the spiral-
ling increase of available build-

The Labor Council considers

@ Cds in he that the lack of ‘adequate hous-
Mop ough we ing” within the financial means
ies j, MBhly pro- of the citizen is the number one
the world ill of our city.
ine he aye. Rev. Leslie S. Mott, of the
ecg © gobbled United Church, “believes that
th ation, the most acute problem of our
: Pays” the aver. city is the lack of housing for
Wager (SE to 35 welfare and low income fami-
8 tha Or shelter lies.” From the other side of the
n oe Percent fence, the Hamilton Chamber of
"alist UNtries s Commerce, in its “Agenda for
¢ ot Action,” published in 1966, does

fing --- TURN LEFT!

ance firms and banks, block any
and all attempts for a rational
solution to the housing crisis.

‘The whole city is the victim
of this cynical conspiracy, and
it is a growing recognition of
this fact that is uniting the labor
movement, the churches, small
businessmen and all democratic-
minded Hamiltonians into action
to solve the crisis.

Everyone is aware that Ham-
ilton is not going to get at this
big problem by itself. It is really
only a civic question to the de-
gree that it exposes itself most
vividly in the big cities. It’s
solution demands action by
senior governments, in the first
place the provincial government.

After 20 years of evasion,
shilly-shallying and downright
refusal to act, the Tory admin-
istration in Queens Park was
finally compelled by public pres-
sure to do something. And what

The housing problem is
largely one of money, and
|-there ‘dre “many ways in
arrange-

which financial

ing requirements of the com-
munity, Soe
—Donald B. Kirkup, Public
Relations and Research
Director of Toronto Real
Estate Board.

did they produce? HOME. (Home
Ownership Made Expensive.) If
this wishy-washy peace of legis-
lation proves anything, it proves
that the Tories in this province
are tied in so intimately with the
real estate sharks and: land spe-
culators that they dare not even
approach meaningful solutions
tions to the housing crisis.

The Communist Party says
there is no “private enterprise’
solution to the housing crisis and
that the depth of the problem
adequately proves that succes-
sive Tory and Liberal govern-
ment attempts to solve it by
“private enterprise” methods are
bound to fail.

Large scale public housing,
both for medium as well as low
income families is absolutely
necessary.

Short of such an overall solu-
tion which will obviously require
mass pressure and changes in
government at all levels, home-
owners and renters alike must
be protected against increased
costs. We call for the freezing
of the price of land to stop land
speculation and a freeze on rents
which would prohibit landlords
from profiteering on the hous-
ing shortage.

8,000 acres per year. What is available is going at around

How can { cure what ails you if you won't swallow?

There is no land shortage. Between here and Bramalea

{near Brampton) there is 200,000 acres of vacant land
available for residential development. This is why it is ab-

~ surd that one must pay an average of $12,000 for a quarter
acre of terrain in the outlying suburbs.

_ Metro is running out of raw land at a rate of about

‘ _get.about four house building
too high standard of services
will run around $25,000 per

and imposts are added and
two or three years of delay,

followi

this price bracket. Only six percent of Metro’s families earn
$10,000 or more. Therefore ownership is beyond the reach
of at least nine out of ten families.

—Donald B. Kirkup, Public Relations and Research
Director of Toronto Real Estate Board.

There should be no further expropriation in the Province
until the government enacts some decent expropriation
laws or until the nitwits responsible for carrying out expro-
priation schemes find the courage to do more to ade-
quately compensate property owners within existing legis-
lation.

Back in May of this year, | prepared a Study of Expro-
priation for Urban Renewal on Behalf of the City of Toronto
for Submission to the Provincial Government. This Report
contains about 150 pages but | will quote only a couple
of pertinent paragraphs:

‘It is the respectful submission of The Toronto Real Es-
tate Board that relocation allowances should be paid in
the form of outright cash payments to expropriated owners
because of the special circumstances which tend to devalue
properties prior to expropriation not only particularly for
the purpose of urban renewal but in takings for other pub-
lic projects. There should be no obligation for the recipient
to repay the cash relocation allowance.”

«|. in each case average prices paid to expropriated
owners in urban renewal areas were considerably lower
than the average sales prices of similar properties sold in
the private market in areas adjacent to urban renewal
areas.”

—Donald B. Kirkup, Public Relations and Research
Director of Toronto Real Estate Board.

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